This article analyzes the nature of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Basque varieties. It demonstrates that, despite their identical dative morphology, DOM objects display a different syntax to goal indirect objects. Based on the licensing of depictive secondary predication and on the absolutive marking of non-human and indefinite objects, it argues that DOM objects are generated in a direct rather than indirect object configuration. Moreover, given the tight relation between case and agreement in ditransitive constructions and the possibility to check Case in Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) contexts, it proposes that dative Case in DOM is structurally checked in an Agree relation against a functional head of the verbal agreement complex. The article thus identifies a different dative argument which has not been previously characterized in this manner: one that does not originate within an applicative or postpositional phrase and checks Case structurally.
2018. Licensing and Differential Object Marking: The View from Neo‐Aramaic. Syntax 21:2 ► pp. 112 ff.
Luraghi, Silvia, Merlijn De Smit & Iván Igartua
2020. Contact-induced change in the languages of Europe: The rise and development of partitive cases and determiners in Finnic and Basque. Linguistics 58:3 ► pp. 869 ff.
Puentes, Stephanie A., Daniel Eduardo Chaves Peña & Sergio Jimenez
2022. Análisis empírico de la MDO en el español: tensión armónica entre iconicidad y economía. DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 38:2
2021. Stylistic Variation and the Role of Dialect Contact in theleísmoof Basque-Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 14:1 ► pp. 81 ff.
Rodríguez‐Ordóñez, Itxaso
2021. The role of social meaning in contact‐induced variation among new speakers of Basque. Journal of Sociolinguistics 25:4 ► pp. 533 ff.
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