Differential Object Marking in Romance : Towards Microvariation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irimia, Monica Alexandrina.

Contributor:

Mardale, Alexandru.

Series:

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series ; v.280

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Noun.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Direct object.

Romance languages--Morphosyntax.

Romance languages--Variation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023.

Summary:

This volume brings together original papers addressing various aspects of differential object marking in Romance languages, focusing on micro-variation, from both a descriptive and formal perspective, touching on diachrony, language contact, synchrony, and using a large set of methodologies.

Contents:

Intro

Differential Object Marking in Romance

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Introduction

1. Romance DOM

2. Romance DOM

3. Romance DOM

4. Romance DOM

5. DOM and syntactic effects

5.1 DOM and displacement

5.2 DOM and co-occurrence restrictions

6. DOM under contact

7. Diachrony

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

References

Differential object marking in Barese

1. Introduction

2. A preliminary overview on Barese DOM

3. A new overview of Barese DOM

3.1 Pronouns with human referents

3.1.1 Personal pronouns

3.1.2 Demonstrative pronouns

3.2 Kinship terms and proper names

3.3 Overt determiners

3.3.1 Demonstrative + NP

3.3.2 Definite article + NP

3.3.2.1 Singular DPs

3.3.2.2 Plural DPs

3.3.2.3 Non-human DPs

3.4 Indefinite pronouns

3.5 Indefinites, numerals, and quantifiers + NP

4. Structural contexts blocking DOM in Barese

4.1 Ditransitive structures with human indirect objects

4.2 Complement of perception verbs

5. Conclusions

Differential object marking in French

2. DOM in French

3. Data and methodology

3.1 Corpus search

3.2 Acceptability judgment task

4. Results

4.1 Corpus analysis

4.2 Acceptability task

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

Corpora

Appendix

Clitic doubling in Brazilian Portuguese as a DOM strategy

2. Empirical data

2.1 Summary of the section

3. Theoretical assumptions

4. The syntactic and semantic effects of clitic doubling

5. The syntactic derivation of clitic doubling in BP

5.1 Derivation of the indirect object constructions

6. Final remarks

Funding

References.

Syntactic and semantic constraints on differential object marking in Old Sardinian

2. Synchronic overview of the O marking in modern Sardinian

3. The marking of O arguments in Old Logudorese

4. The marking of O arguments in old Arborense11

Differential object marking in Brazilian Portuguese

2. DOM in Brazilian Portuguese

3. Differential object marking in European Portuguese

4. Towards an analysis

5. BP and Topic heads

6. Evidence for sentential ellipsis

7. Differential object marking and dative morphology

8. Conclusions

The abbreviations are as follows

Corsican DOM

1. Range of use of the Corsican DOM-marker

1.1 Dates

1.2 Proper nouns

1.3 Some kinship terms used without a determiner

1.4 Strong personal pronouns

1.5 The demonstrative pronouns questu/quistu, quessu/quissu and quellu/quiddu

1.6 Some "indefinite" pronouns6

2. Inadequacy of a number of local factors

2.1 Humaness, animacy (cf. Marcellesi, 1986, p. 133 or Giancarli, 2014, pp. 199-200)

2.2 Definiteness

2.3 Various hierarchies

3. What the absence of determiner tells us about Corsican DOM

4. Corsican DOM

4.1 Designators

4.1.1 Rigid designators

4.1.2 Flaccid designators

4.1.2.1 Some kinship terms

4.1.2.2 Dates

4.1.2.3 Strong personal pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns questu/quistu, quessu/quissu, quellu/quiddu

4.1.2.4 The pronouns unu/qualchidunu/qualchissia (someone) in a peripheral use

4.2 Scanning operation

4.2.1 Scan without totalization

4.2.1.1 The pronouns unu/qualchidunu/qualchissia (someone) in their major and minor uses

4.2.1.2 The interrogative pronoun quali (who?)

4.2.2 Scan with totalization.

4.2.2.1 The antecedent pronouns in non-restrictive relative clauses + the fused relative pronoun

4.2.2.2 The quantifying pronouns tutti (all, everyone) + nimu / nisunu (no one)

Conclusion

Corpora and abbreviations

Differential object marking in a dialect of Sicily

1. Introduction1

2. Background

3. The realization of D in Sicily

3.1 Person and overt raising to D

3.2 Definite and indefinite articles

3.3 Towards a classification

4. The distribution of a-marking in the dialect of Ragusa

4.1 Pronominal items

4.2 Proper names

4.3 Kinship expressions

4.4 Count nouns

4.5 Mass and abstract nouns

5. Towards a taxonomy

6. Some (marginal) speculations on contact

7. Conclusions

The dative/accusative alternations in Old Romanian

2. Data and methodology

3. The verbs

4. Indirect objects

4.1 Implementation

4.2 Structure

5. Adjuncts

6. Direct objects

7. Summary and conclusions

List of texts

Differential object marking in kinship terms and animacy hierarchies in Old Sardinian

2. Previous studies on DOM in Sardinian

3. DOM with singular nouns

4. DOM with plural nouns

5. Analysis

5.1 Singular vs plural in the animacy hierarchy

5.2 Parallel distribution of DOM in other Romance languages

Parametric variation in differential object marking in Italo-Romance

2. Person split

2.1 Type 1A

2.2 Type 1B

2.3 Type 1C

2.4 Summary

3. Pronominal split

3.1 Type 2A

3.2 Type 2B

3.3 Type 2C

3.4 Type 2D

3.5 Summary

4. D-Split

4.1 Type 3A

4.2 Type 3B

4.3 Type 3C

4.4 Summary

5. Animacy and specificity splits.

5.1 Type 4A

5.2 Type 4B

5.3 Type 4C

5.4 Type 4D

6. Summary and conclusions

A micro-comparative approach to DOM in language-contact environments

2. The sociolinguistics of DOM in Basque and Catalan

3. The morphosyntactic characterization of DOM in Catalan, Basque and Spanish

4. Factors that trigger DOM in Catalan, Basque and Spanish

5. Conclusion

The following abbreviations will be used in the text

Index.

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