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Differential Object Marking and Labeling in Spanish

open access: yesLanguages, 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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Variation in differential object marking: On some differences between Spanish and Romanian

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2020
Although differential object marking (DOM) has been studied from a multitude of perspectives, research into the types of variation it allows in closely related languages is still needed.
Irimia Monica Alexandrina
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Variable Acceptability of Differential Object Marking in Bilingual Galician–Spanish Speakers: An Exploratory Study

open access: yesLanguages
This paper presents an initial study of the acceptability of differential object marking (DOM) by Galician–Spanish bilinguals in Galicia. The research explores judgments provided by these bilinguals (n = 69) on DOM in both Galician and Spanish and it ...
Manuel Delicado Cantero   +1 more
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Differential Object Marking and Nominal Licensing

open access: yesDilbilim 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 in inanimate objects in Spanish

open access: yesBorealis: 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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On Dative-Lative Encoded Direct Objects in West Mansi [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica 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

open access: yesGlossa, 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]

open access: yesLinguistica 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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Object marking in German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache): Differential object marking and object shift in the visual modality

open access: yesGlossa, 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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Differential Object Marking, Case and Agreement

open access: yesBorealis: 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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