Variation in differential object marking: On some differences between Spanish and Romanian

Autor: Irimia Monica Alexandrina
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Open Linguistics, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 424-462 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2300-9969
2020-0110
DOI: 10.1515/opli-2020-0110
Popis: Although differential object marking (DOM) has been studied from a multitude of perspectives, research into the types of variation it allows in closely related languages is still needed. This article examines DOM from the point of view of (micro)variation, focusing on two genetically related languages, namely, standard Spanish and Romanian. Both identities and points of divergence are discussed in detail and argued to result from a morphosyntactic parameter in the realm of differential marking. Following López [López, Luis. 2012. Indefinite Objects Scrambling, Choice Functions and Differential Marking. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press], the Spanish special marker signals certain types of nominals which undergo short scrambling in order to have Case licensed. In Romanian, however, DOM is equated with an additional operation beyond the valuation of Case.
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