Re: Mir ist kalt -- How to analyze this sentence?

In a message dated 6/19/2007 4:58:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
laokou@COMCAST.NET writes:


> > "Mir ist kalt"? That's German for "I feel cold", and breaks
> > down into 1sg.DAT is cold. But what is the subject in this
> > sentence? "Kalt", despite it's an adjective?
>
> If you Google search "dative structures in Germanic languages" or "mir ist
> kalt grammatical explanation", you'll find a plethora of pedantic information
> -- some moderately interesting, some mind-numbingly dry -- on the subject.
> And you'll find out more on Icelandic, Faroese, Old Swedish, and German than
> you could ever have thought you might have wanted to know.
>
> Good Luuuuuuuuuuuuuck,
>
> Kou
>
Russian has this dative construction too (mne kholodno/zharko).

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