Low applicatives and affected applicatives in Turkish

This paper argues that the dative beneficiary in Turkish has been incorrectly identified as a high applicative structure. While datives are felicitous with certain unergative and stative verbs, they show semantic restrictions unexpected on analysis. I argue instead two types: low (contra Tonyalı 2015a,b), relating applied argument to theme possessor, affected (Cuervo 2003), state of beneficiary. Neither these is event whole. correctly captures distribution non-core without overgenerating analysis does.