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Differential object marking and topicality

Studies in Language, 2009
The aim of this paper is to examine Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Balearic Catalan. While definiteness and animacy can explain the distribution of DOM in other varieties of Catalan, in Balearic, the split between marked and non-marked objects is not dependent on inherent or referential properties of the object noun phrases, but determined by ...
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Differential object marking in Barese

2023
Abstract This article describes the behaviour of differential object marking (DOM) in Barese in the light of a preliminary study conducted by the author, which is here refined and rectified thanks to sets of novel data.
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Differential object marking in Old Romanian

2021
Chapter 3 focuses on DOM in Old Romanian, for both direct and indirect objects. The data are organized according to the type of DOM mechanisms, with separate sections for CD, DOM-p, and CD+DOM-p. The focus is on the pragmatic effects of DOM, since this operation is discourse triggered in Old Romanian (i.e., CD for backgrounding, as opposed to DOM-p for
Virginia Hill, Alexandru Mardale
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Differential object marking in Hungarian

2017
This chapter provides an overview of differential object agreement in Hungarian. Finite verbs in Hungarian always agree with the subject in person and number, and sometimes agree with the object. Generally, the trigger of object agreement is argued to be related to definiteness.
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Differential object marking in Latgalian

2014
This article discusses variation in object marking in Latgalian, based on sources where this phenomenon is most pronounced. Differential object marking in Latgalian consists in the choice of the genitive instead of the accusative for objects of transitive verbs. Genitive marking regularly appears in negated clauses and in constructions with the supine.
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The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking

2020
Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has evolved diachronically in many languages, whereas it has disappeared from others; it is easily acquired by ...
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Differential object marking in Mozambican languages

2017
Diversity in African Languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon. Most chapters focus on single languages, addressing diverse aspects of their phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, information structure, or historical development.
Atelela Ngunga, Armindoo Saúl, Bonfim Duarte, Fábio, Fagundes Camargos, Quesler   +2 more
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The syntax of objects: agree and differential object marking

2007
Rodríguez-Mondoñedo M. (2007). The syntax of objects: agree and differential object marking. Ph.D. Diss. University of Connecticut.
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Differential Object Marking

2022
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The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking in Tamil

Abstract In some languages with morphological case-marking, the full range of direct objects is not uniformly marked but varies based on language-particular semantic and pragmatic factors, so-called differential object marking (DOM). Children acquiring DOM languages must identify the morphological forms used to mark direct objects and
Annu Kurian-Mathew, Bhuvana Narasimhan
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