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This paper focuses on the conception of the sphere of infl uence and its usage in research of dative case in the cognitive semantics frame. Taking as an example such authors as: Anna Wierzbicka, Ricardo Maldonado, Laura Janda, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn and Ewa Dąbrowska, the difference in understanding and usage of this conception has been shown, from very narrow, which contains only minor of dative uses, to very wide, which shows the essence of all non-allative uses.