The diachrony of differential object marking in Romanian / Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Virginia, author.

Mardale, Alexandru, author.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics ; v.45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanian language--Syntax.

Romanian language.

Romanian language--Morphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. It shows that Romanian DOM is a combination of Balkan and Romance patterns, and sheds light on existing typological approaches.

Contents:

Cover

The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian

Copyright

Contents

Series preface

Acknowledgements

List of figures

List of tables

Abbreviations

1: Introduction

1.1 Previous research

1.2 The contribution of this book

1.3 Data

1.4 Methodology

1.5 Definitions

1.6 Structure of the volume

2: Two patterns for differential object marking: Balkan and Romance

2.1 Syntactic patterns in Romanian

2.1.1 Clause structure: word order

2.1.2 The pronominal system

2.1.3 The case system

2.1.4 Nominal phrases

2.2 Differential object marking in Balkan languages

2.2.1 Clitic doubling in the Balkan Sprachbund

2.2.2 CD in Balkan Romance

2.2.2.1 Aromanian

2.2.2.2 Megleno-Romanian

2.2.2.3 Istro-Romanian

2.3 Differential object marking in Romance languages

2.3.1 Origins

2.3.2 DOM micro-variation in Romance languages

2.3.2.1 Group 1

2.3.2.2 Group 2

2.3.2.3 Group 3

2.3.2.4 Relevance for Romanian DOM

2.4 CD from a Romance perspective

2.5 Summary

3: Differential object marking in Old Romanian

3.1 General remarks

3.1.1 Semantic scales

3.1.2 Variations in the grammaticalization of pre

3.1.3 Definite article restriction

3.1.4 DOM in Church Slavonic

3.2 Indirect objects

3.2.1 Morpho-syntactic properties

3.2.2 CD with indirect objects

3.3 Direct objects

3.3.1 DOM with direct objects: general properties

3.3.1.1 Semantic scales

3.3.1.2 Discourse pragmatics

3.3.1.3 Unsystematic marking

3.3.2 Statistics

3.3.3 DOM through clitic doubling

3.3.4 DOM through DOM-p

3.3.4.1 Frequency and language registers

3.3.4.2 Semantic scales

3.3.4.3 Discourse triggers

3.3.5 DOM through CD/DOM-p

3.4 Summary

4: Differential object marking in Modern Romanian

4.1 Indirect objects.

4.1.1 Constituents with dative case marking

4.1.2 CD with indirect objects

4.2 Direct objects: CD and DOM-p

4.2.1 CD with direct objects

4.2.2 DOM-p

4.2.2.1 Spellout

4.2.2.2 Definiteness/specificity scale

4.2.2.3 Animacy

4.2.2.4 Interpretation

4.3 Direct objects: CD+DOM-p

4.3.1 Semantic features

4.3.2 Personal pronouns

4.3.3 Proper nouns

4.3.4 Definite common nouns

4.3.5 Indefinites

4.4 Statistics

4.5 Clitic left dislocation (CLLD)

4.6 Summary

5: The grammaticalization of pe

5.1 Etymology

5.2 Changes to the preposition pe

5.3 Sources of DOM pe

5.4 Changes to DOM pe

5.5 Comparison with Sardinian and Spanish

5.5.1 Semantic scales

5.5.2 Verb properties for DOM-p

5.5.3 Clitic Left Dislocation and DOM-p

5.6 Summary

6: Formal approaches to DOM

6.1 The clausal approach

6.1.1 López (2012)

6.1.1.1 Binding of possessives

6.1.1.2 Binding of reflexives

6.1.1.3 Case restrictions

6.1.2 Ordóñez &amp

Roca (2018)

6.1.2.1 Extraction from a complex DP

6.1.2.2 Relativization from an adjunct island

6.2 The nominal approach

6.2.1 DOM-p and DP structure

6.2.2 DOM and clitics

6.2.2.1 CD in Romance languages

6.2.2.2 CD in Balkan languages

7: A formal approach to Romanian DOM

7.1 Framework

7.2 DOM pe is not a preposition

7.2.1 Prepositional Phrases

7.2.2 Restrictions with DOM pe

7.3 DP structure

7.3.1 Modern Romanian DP

7.3.2 Old Romanian DP

7.4 DOM configurations

7.4.1 DOM through DOM-p

7.4.2 CD versus CLLD

7.4.3 DOM through CD

7.4.4 DOM through CD+DOM-p

7.5 DOM and the clause

7.6 Summary and follow-up

8: Conclusions

Appendix: Romanian and Romania

A.1 History

A.2 Language

A.3 Texts

List of Romanian texts

References

Index of languages (excluding Romanian)

Index of Authors.

Index of Terms

Backmatter Series Page.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-192533-0

0-19-265409-8

OCLC:

1255221917