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Differential Case Marking in Bodo [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018 Bodo exhibits differential case marking for its subject and object arguments. In Bodo, subject marking is obligatory with inanimate subjects of stative verbs and animate subjects of dynamic verbs.
Pauthang Haokip, Daimalu Brahma
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Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
IsoglossSpanish, like many other Romance and non-Romance languages, shows Differential Object Marking (DOM), i.e., some direct objects are morphologically marked by the prepositional marker a ‘to’, while others remain unmarked.
Klaus von Heusinger +2 more
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Interactions between Differential Object Marking and Definiteness in Standard and Heritage Romanian
Languages, 2023 The observation that not all grammatical realizations in heritage languages can be attributed to transfer from a dominant language has been emphasized in several recent works. This paper provides further arguments in this direction from heritage Romanian.
Monica Alexandrina Irimia
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GlossaThis paper examines the nature of object marking in DGS (German Sign Language), providing an account of the behavior of the sign glossed as PAM, previously analyzed as an agreement auxiliary (person agreement marker) and more recently as a differential ...
Antonia Dietrich +3 more
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Some Notes on Experiencer Causatives and DOM in Romanian
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2022 This paper focuses on object experiencer (OE) causatives in Romanian, identifying a less discussed pattern of variation. The results of a pilot study indicate that for a class of speakers such predicates are not grammatical with an indefinite object, if ...
Julie Goncharov +1 more
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Open LinguisticsThere has been growing debate about the special status of object marking in sign languages. In this article, we contribute evidence for the existence of a differential object marker in DGS (German Sign Language). Based on data from the Public DGS Corpus,
de Souza Santos Thiago +2 more
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New structural patterns in moribund grammar: Case marking in Heritage German
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Research treats divergences between monolingual and heritage grammars in terms of performance — ‘L1 attrition’, e.g. lexical retrieval — or competence — ‘incomplete acquisition’, e.g. lack of overt tense markers (e.g.
Lisa M. Yager +6 more
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The Discourse Function of Differential Object Marking in Turkish
LanguagesDifferential Object Marking (DOM) is a cross-linguistic phenomenon in which the overt marking of direct objects of certain transitive verbs exhibits distinct morpho-syntactic properties.
Klaus von Heusinger +1 more
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Specificity effects with clitic doubling and pe marking [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 This paper focuses on the relationship between pe marking and clitic doubling in Romanian arguing in favour of Bleam’s (1999) hypothesis: the two mechanisms are semantically related through the specificity effects they both engender, but are otherwise ...
Alina-Mihaela Tigău
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Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages
Linguistic TypologyDifferential object marking (DOM) is known from a great variety of language families. We present data suggesting that, contrary to what is suggested in recent typological surveys, DOM is also a widespread phenomenon in Austronesian symmetrical voice ...
Bonmann Svenja +2 more
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