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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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Exceptional patterns of object marking in Bantu
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 This article discusses three main phenomena in the morpho-syntax and morpho-phonology of Bantu languages in which the 1SG object prefix (OP) and/or the reflexive, display anomalous properties compared to other OPs.
Michael R. Marlo
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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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Agreement with conjoined arguments in Kuria
Studies in African Linguistics, 2015 How languages solve the grammatical problem of agreeing with conjoined arguments is a well-known area of cross-linguistic variation. This paper describes these patterns for Kuria (Bantu, Kenya), documenting a pattern of agreement that has not been ...
Michael Diercks +2 more
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Estonian Transitive Verb Classes, Object Case, and Progressive
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 This article examines the relation between aspect and object case in Estonian and establishes a verb classification that predicts many facets of object case behavior.
Anne Tamm
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Object focus marking in Spanish: An investigation using three tasks
Glossa, 2020 The literature on focus in Spanish contains a divide between theoretical claims and quantitative empirical evidence: While Spanish is often regarded as resorting to syntactic movement to mark focus, quantitative and/or experimental data often do not ...
Bradley Hoot +2 more
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Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 This paper discusses typological tendencies of focus marking strategies from a cross-Bantu perspective based on the Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation (BMV) database, a large-scale database of morphosyntactic variation of Bantu languages built around 142 ...
Daisuke Shinagawa, Lutz Marten
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The Influence of Focus Marking on Pronoun Resolution in Dialogue Context
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Using visual world eye-tracking, we examined whether adults (N = 58) and children (N = 37; 3;1–6;3) use linguistic focussing devices to help resolve ambiguous pronouns.
Liam P. Blything +5 more
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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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An analysis and description of case marking in four Persian dialects of Khuzestan [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2015 Case marking is one way of showing grammatical relationships between the constituents in the sentences. In this study, case marking will be discussed in four Persian dialects of Khuzestan, namely Dezfuli, Shushtari, Behbahani and Hendijani.
zahra Hamedi shirvan +2 more
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