Article published in:
Differential objects and datives – a homogeneous class?Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Anna Pineda
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1] 2019
► pp. 31–55
Differential object marking and object scrambling in the Guaraní language cluster
Eva-Maria Roessler | University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
The parallel data discussed in this article suggest that in
Guaraní languages differential objects seem far from being exclusively
highlighted in morphology. Instead, the Guaraní dom systems exhibit a
differential treatment of certain direct objects within narrow syntax. Focusing
on [+animate] direct objects, I supply evidence that [+dom] direct
objects scramble out of their base position into a higher,
vP-internal, projection, namely αP (following López 2012). This
short DO scrambling is derived including data from simple
transitive, ditransitive, and applicative constructions as well as from object
conjunction. The short scrambling within vP is followed by
further direct object dislocation into a higher functional domain, an operation
described in literature as triggered by φ-feature under T° and targeting a
specifier in an expanded functional domain (Freitas 2011b). DOs that move out of their base position may be marked with the overt case marker, homophonous with dat case. The homophony between dat and dom is conceived as morphological opacity in the Guaraní case. Syntactically, however, [+dom] DOs pattern together with their zero-marked acc counterparts, rather than
with indirect objects.
Keywords: differential object marking, object scrambling, person hierarchy, direct/inverse alignment, Guaraní language cluster
Published online: 10 July 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00028.roe
https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00028.roe
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