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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
exaly   +3 more sources

Object marking in ditransitives

open access: yes, 2022
AbstractChapter 3 extends the approach developed in Chapter 2 from monotransitives to ditransitives. It addresses two parameters regarding object marking: symmetry and the number of object markers. The first parameter distinguishes between asymmetric marking in which only the highest object (Benefactive/Recipient) can be object-marked and symmetric ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish

open access: yesCatalan 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
doaj   +5 more sources

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
doaj   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +2 more sources

Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Turkish and Uzbek

open access: yesLinguistics, 2022
This article explores the relationship between affectedness and Differential Object Marking (DOM) of indefinite direct objects in Turkish and Uzbek. We argue that the distribution of DOM in the two Turkic languages is determined by the direct objects ...
Klaus von Heusinger   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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