| Title: | On the Interaction of Differential Object Marking and Clitic Doubling in Romanian |
| Authors: | Virginia Hill, Alexandru Mardale |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXII (4), p. 393-409 Differential Object Marking in Romance: some more pieces of the puzzle / Le marquage différentiel de l’objet dans les langues romanes : quelques nouvelles pièces du puzzle Edited by Alexandru Mardale |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | The key question in this paper is the following: why do Differential Object Marking (DOM) and Clitic Doubling (CD) interact in Modern Romanian, since that was not necessarily the case in Old Romanian? The hypothesis we defend relies on the presence of a topic feature at the left periphery of DOM-ed noun projections: the bleaching of this feature, reflected through the grammaticalization of the DOM particle pe, triggers changes in the implementation of feature checking; in particular, it resort to CD as a means of supplementing the checking function of pe. The corollary of this analysis is that the emergence of the CD/DOM interaction depends on a major parametric shift, whereby Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) is generalized in the language to the detriment of topicalization; CD is a sub-case of CLLD. Empirical evidence comes from a corpus of original and translated texts from the 16th century. |
| Key words: | Differential Object Marking, Clitic Doubling, Clitic Left Dislocation, grammaticalization, reanalysis, preposition, (topic) marker, Case, (Old) Romanian |
| Language: | English |
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Citations to this publication: 1
| 0 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 60, 2017). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2017 | LR, LXVII (2), 127-254 | 2018 |
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