| Title: | Microvariation within Differential Object Marking: Data from Romance |
| Author: | Alexandru Mardale |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LIII (4), p. 449-467 |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | It is well known that in certain Romance languages the direct object may be introduced or not by a marker which is homonymous with a corresponding preposition: pe in Romanian, a in Spanish and Sardinian. This phenomenon is known as Differential Object Marking (DOM). The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we present a detailed description of the distribution of DOM in Romance. On the other hand, we sketch a generalization correlating DOM with the denotation of the noun that functions as a direct object. We begin by briefly examining the parameters that generally determine DOM. Then we compare Romance marked constructions and describe the similarities and the differences between the three languages presenting this phenomenon. After reviewing a number of previous analyses, we finally adopt a proposal based on the semantic type of the direct object (cf. Cornilescu & Dobrovie-Sorin (2007)). This proposal may be expressed as a twofold generalization: (i) DOM is obligatory only for those objects that are necessarily |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 5
| 1 | Alexandru Mardale | Differential Object Marking in the First Original Romanian Texts | DPs, 200 | 2015 | |
| 0 | Ruxandra Cosma, Stefan Engelberg | Subjektsätze als alternative Argumentrealisierungen im Deutschen und Rumänischen | Kompl. Arg., 339-420 | 2014 | html |
| 2 | Cristina Ciovârnache, Larisa Avram | Specificity and Animacy in the Acquisition of DOM in Persian as L2 | RRL, LVIII (4), 419-438 | 2013 | pdf html |
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 52, 2009). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2009 | LR, LIX (3), 307-443 | 2010 | |
| 6 | Alexandru Mardale | Un regard diachronique sur le marquage différentiel de l’objet en roumain | RRL, LIV (1-2), 65-93 | 2009 | pdf html |
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