Eckhard Bick - VISL

A typical case is arrancar ('to pull out') in (9a), where the @DAT function simply fills
the semantically pre-existing valency slot of "affected" (here a negative variant of
"benefactive": 'to pull out from') - which can be tested for its "dativeness" by
substitution with a predicative object headed by the preposition a (arrancar-lhe ac. -
arrancar ac. a alg.), in analogy with other dative governing ditransitives (e.g. dar
'give'). Such cases can be marked (or ) in the lexicon, and the only
special feature of the se-constructions concerned, is that subject and dative object
coincide, rather than subject and direct object, as usual in reflexive constructions.
Lembrar (9c), too, has a valency slot for "affected" or "benefactive" ('to remind
s.o. of s.th.') and allows alternation between dative lhe and a PP headed by the
preposition a (lembrar-lhe ac. - lembrar ac. a alg.), - though it can also govern a "de"prepositional
object on top of reflexivisation (), as in devem se @ACC>
lembrar do @ lembrar de @