Re: not un-/anti-passive

Hi!

ROGER MILLS writes:
> Basque, IIRC, has a construction in intimate speech where you insert a
> 2nd or 3d pers. dative marker into the auxiliary (in addition to
> subject and object), which indicates that somehow the statement is of
> interest to, or concerns, that person, or even simply that speaker
> somehow wants to involve the other in the statement. The translations
> offered made it rather difficult to see exactly what was going on :-(
> And I forget what the grammar book called it. "Dative of interest?
> Dative of reference?" or some such.
Latin and German have that, too.

German:

   Komm mir    nicht zu  spät nach Hause!
   come me_DAT not   too late to   home
   'Don't come late home!'

'mir' is this kind of dative object.

As for Latin examples, someone else might want to help me out.

**Henrik

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