Re: not un-/anti-passive

As for a Latin example, does this work:

 Quid mihi Celsus agit?

 (I found this while searching for 'Ethical Dative')

 'How's Celsus doing - to me'  i.e. 'How's my friend Celsus doing?'
-Elliott

--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

> From: Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
> Subject: Re: not un-/anti-passive
> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
> Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 7:22 AM
> 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