How can you translate in your language - if you can at all -
I gave it TO him ?
Can that preposition (or ...) refer to both dative and to place, is my question, as one might conclude
from ENG to (both dative and direction),
from FRE à, ...
DUT aan is not considered a reference to a movement...
The background is : is there any evidence for corroborating Steven Pinker's hypothesis that datives were originally referring to a movement in space?
I gave it TO him ?
Can that preposition (or ...) refer to both dative and to place, is my question, as one might conclude
from ENG to (both dative and direction),
from FRE à, ...
DUT aan is not considered a reference to a movement...
The background is : is there any evidence for corroborating Steven Pinker's hypothesis that datives were originally referring to a movement in space?