Ways of being a dative across Romance varieties

In this article, we argue that the term dative can correspond to objects of a very
different linguistic nature, even in typologically close languages. Specifically, in
syntactic terms datives can be different from accusatives or identical to them at
some point in the derivation; in the latter case, clashes between 3rd person clitics
emerge. Our approach, then, argues that clitic incompatibilities are best explained
through syntactic tools.