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

 From: Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>

> The topic already says it all. How do I analyze the sentence
> "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