@inproceedings{birtic-etal-2025-dative,
    title = "Dative alternations in less-researched syntactic patterns of standard {C}roatian",
    author = "Birti{\'c}, Matea Andrea  and
      Runjai{\'c}, Sini{\v{s}}a  and
      Sviben, Robert",
    editor = "Haji{\v{c}}ov{\'a}, Eva  and
      Kahane, Sylvain",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/transition-to-people-yaml/2025.depling-1.10/",
    pages = "103--107",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-290-9",
    abstract = "Dative alternation in double object constructions is a frequently researched syntactic phenomenon, having been investigated across world languages. Consequently, even relatively smaller and under-resourced languages like Croatian have seen influential studies on the topic. Recent syntactic and semantic analyses of verbs in standard Croatian have identified less-explored instances of dative alternation. This contribution aims to describe the alternation between dative case and prepositional phrase for the non-agentive and intransitive uses of the verb slu{\v{z}}iti ({`}to serve'), as well as the dative alternation for the agentive and transitive uses of the verb izbje{\'c}i ({`}to avoid')."
}