Differential Object Marking in Romance
Towards microvariation
Editors
Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and theoretical level. Many questions are still being raised regarding which precise morpho-syntactic strategies count as differential object marking, whether the data can be unified, and, subsequently, how they are to be unified formally and theoretically. Additionally, a thorough investigation of this phenomenon is still needed for many Romance languages and especially at the micro-variation level. This volume brings together original papers addressing various aspects of differential object marking in Romance languages, focusing on micro-variation, from both a descriptive and formal perspective, touching on diachrony, language contact, synchrony, and using a large set of methodologies.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 280] 2023. viii, 350 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 November 2023
Published online on 9 November 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of abbreviations | pp. vii–viii
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IntroductionMonica Alexandrina Irimia and Alexandru Mardale | pp. 1–23
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Differential object marking in Barese: Old and new perspectivesLuigi Andriani | pp. 24–55
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Differential object marking in French: Myth or reality?Larissa Binder and Elisabeth Stark | pp. 56–84
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Clitic doubling in Brazilian Portuguese as a DOM strategyFábio Bonfim Duarte | pp. 85–104
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Syntactic and semantic constraints on differential object marking
in Old SardinianMichela Cennamo, Francesco Maria Ciconte and Luigi Andriani | pp. 105–134 -
Differential object marking in Brazilian PortugueseSonia Cyrino and Monica Alexandrina Irimia | pp. 135–159
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Corsican DOM: Towards a unified local explanationPierre-Don Giancarli | pp. 160–191
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Differential object marking in a dialect of SicilyCristina Guardiano | pp. 192–231
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The dative/accusative alternations in Old RomanianVirginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale | pp. 232–252
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Differential object marking in kinship terms and animacy hierarchies in Old SardinianYusuke Kanazawa | pp. 253–266
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Parametric variation in differential object marking in Italo-RomanceAdam Ledgeway | pp. 267–314
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A micro-comparative approach to DOM in language-contact environments: The case of Catalan, Basque and SpanishAne Odria and Anna Pineda | pp. 315–347
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Index | pp. 349–350
Cited by (5)
Cited by five other publications
Corr, Alice
Costea, Ștefania & Adam Ledgeway
Delicado Cantero, Manuel & M. Carmen Parafita Couto
Iranzo, Vicente
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax