Timeline for Die Polizei folgt dem Täter: why is Täter in the dative case?
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| Dec 17, 2019 at 6:21 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2019 at 22:09 | comment | added | johnl | It's not that bad a rule, though. It's very helpful, actually, as it holds true most of the time. While you are right that the receiving actant does not necessarily have to be in accusative case, that pretty much is the default (since the most common valence patterns with case complements include an acc complement (Kakk) and Kakk almost always encodes the least active actant). Obviously it is still important to be aware that some verbs have other patterns (see grammis.ids-mannheim.de/progr@mm/6011), but it seems advantageous for learners to start from the common case. | |
| Dec 16, 2019 at 21:57 | history | edited | c.p. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2019 at 21:27 | history | answered | c.p. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |