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Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2004 The use of the preposition a with direct objects in Spanish is a well known instance of the general phenomenon of Differential Object Marking (DOM). In Spanish grammars the insertion of a is usually presented as dependent on two basic factors: animacy ...
Manuel Leonetti
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Differential object marking in inanimate objects in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 The aim of this paper is to explain the differential object marking (DOM) of inanimate objects in Spanish. Generally, animate objects in Spanish are marked with an A morpheme; however, it is possible for the A-marker to appear also with inanimate ...
Rafael Camacho
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Differential object marking in sign languages [PDF]
Glossa, 2019 Sign languages are sometimes claimed to lack argument marking, yet they exhibit many devices to track and disambiguate referents. In this paper, I will argue that there are devices found across sign languages that demonstrate how object marking is a ...
Carl Börstell
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Differential Object Marking, Case and Agreement
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 In this paper, we present empirical evidence showing that Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish is determined by structural conditions related to Case and agreement. We also argue that semantic concepts such as specificity, definiteness, animacy,
Javier Ormazabal, Juan Romero
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Differential Object Marking and Nominal Licensing
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This paper presents a novel account of Differential Object Marking as an instance of case assigned by a post-syntactic Agree-Case operation that transduces agreement relations established in the syntax by marking the goal rather than the probe.
Ümit ATLAMAZ
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Differential Object Marking and Labeling in Spanish
Languages, 2022 This article explores the conditions that underlie the differential marking of objects in Spanish. It is argued here that the A-marker of the direct object is the realization of features in D (class and animate) and features in the verb (affectedness ...
Rafael Camacho Ramírez
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On Dative-Lative Encoded Direct Objects in West Mansi [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 Among the varieties of Ob-Ugric, West Mansi stands out in showing a differential object marking pattern in which direct objects may be encoded with a multi-functional dative-lative case.
Gerson Klumpp
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Differential Object Marking in Modern Hebrew: Definiteness and partitivity
Glossa, 2021 This paper investigates the phenomenon of differential object marking (DOM) currently exhibited in Modern Hebrew. The consensus in the theoretical literature on Hebrew has been that the object marker et is only licensed in the context of definite DPs. We
Aviya Hacohen, Dana Plaut, Olga Kagan
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Differential Object Marking in Tver Karelian; pp. 261-278 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2019 This study provides a descriptive account of differential object marking (DOM) in the (endangered) Tver Karelian variety of the Karelian language. DOM in Tver Karelian is primarily based on the referential boundedness of a verb phrase, which in turn is ...
Nicklas N. B. Oranen
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Glossa, 2020 This article discusses differential object marking and object shift in German Sign Language (DGS). Although there is already some literature discussing the existence of differential object marking in sign languages, this article provides the first in ...
Fabian Bross
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