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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"differential object marking"”.
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On the Development of Differential Object Marking in Romance
… and analyses the emergence and development of Differential Object Marking (henceforth, DOM) in Romance. Although DOM has been posited as the output of semantico-pragmatic parameters such as animacy, this study follows in the vein of research that has emerged in recent decades showing DOM to be …
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Differential object marking in Basque: grammaticalization, attitudes and ideological representations
Differential Object Marking (DOM), a typologically common phenomenon, has enjoyed abundant scholarly interest insomuch as theoretical explanations of its key parameters (Aissen, 2003; Malchukov and Swart, 2008; Hoop and Swart, 2007), language- specific constraints (Leonetti, 2004; Seifart, 2012; …
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The acquisition of differential object marking in L2 Spanish learners
This dissertation tests a grammatical structure, differential object marking (DOM), which is particularly difficult for L2 learners to acquire. DOM is a phenomenon in which some direct objects are morphologically marked to distinguish them from subjects (Comrie, 1979). In Spanish, animate and …
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A look into the bilingual grammar through the study of Basque-Spanish null objects and Basque differential object marking
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
… I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, and the neuterisation of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the three domains mentioned above. Αll …
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A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
… I specifically focus on the development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender distinctions, and the neuterisation of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the three domains mentioned above. !ll …
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Transitivité et marquage d'objet différentiel
This thesis deals with direct object nouns case-marked differentially. According to the commonly assumed generalization nouns marked with ACC case are prototypical objects representing high transitivity, whereas nouns marked with non-accusative cases are not. However, such a view ignores the …
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Tracing language variation in Spanish: A multidisciplinary approach
… focuses on a grammatical structure known as Differential Object Marking (DOM). DOM is the morphological marker that marks some but not all direct objects based on hierarchies such as animacy or referentiality (Aissen, 2008). In Spanish, the language that is the subject of this dissertation, …