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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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Differential place marking and differential object marking [PDF]
This paper gives an overview of differential placemarking phenomena and formulates a number of universals that seem to be well supported. Differential place marking is a situation in which the coding of locative, allative or ablative roles depends on ...
Haspelmath, Martin
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Differential Object Marking in Romance [PDF]
, 2021 After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently introducing new methods ...
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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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Oblique DOM in enriched case hierarchies
Glossa, 2023 This paper addresses syncretism patterns differential object marking (DOM) constructed with oblique morphology (dative, locative, genitive) induces cross-linguistically. It is shown that enriched case hierarchies (Starke 2017, Caha 2019, a.o.), which are
Monica Alexandrina Irimia
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Differential object marking in sign languages
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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Event-related brain potential evidence for animacy processing asymmetries during sentence comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 The animacy distinction is deeply rooted in the language faculty. A key example is differential object marking, the phenomenon where animate sentential objects receive specific marking.
Carreiras, M. +5 more
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A Corpus Analysis of Differential Object Marking in Beserman Udmurt [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2020 This paper is focused on differential object marking in Beserman Udmurt. Elicitation sessions show the relevance of referential properties of the DO for the choice between accusative and zero marking; however, for Standard Udmurt animacy has been claimed
Natalia Serdobolskaya
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Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish
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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Syntactic and semantic constraints on differential object marking in Old Sardinian [PDF]
, 2023 This paper explores the differential marking of (human) objects (DOM) in a corpus of old Sardinian texts from two different areas, Logudoro and Arborea.
Cennamo Michela +3 more
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