History of Dative case

	Revision 10 . . December 18, 2001 5:10 pm by Egern [Changing "he gave me it" to "he gave me that".]
	Revision 9 . . December 18, 2001 5:01 pm by Egern [Temporarily restoring previous version--but "he gave me it"???? Is that grammatical?]
	Revision 8 . . December 18, 2001 4:59 pm by Egern
	Revision 7 . . December 18, 2001 3:55 pm by Karl Palmen [Add examples such as 'He gave me it']
	Revision 6 . . October 23, 2001 10:33 am by Clasqm

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The dative can occur in English without a preposition ('to' or 'for') as in "He gave me it" or "He built me a snowman". In both examples the "me" is dative.

The dative can occur in English without a preposition ('to' or 'for') as in "He gave me that" or "He built me a snowman". In both examples the "me" is dative.