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Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian

Hill, Virginia (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of New Brunswick - St John) & Mardale, Alexandru (Assistant Professor of Romanian Language and Linguistics, Assistant Professor of Romanian Language and Linguistics, INALCO, Paris)

The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics

The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian

Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics: The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian

 

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.


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This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. DOM, a means by which a grammar distinguishes between objects based on semantic features such as animacy or definiteness, has been a fruitful area of research in syntax, historical linguistics, and typology. In this volume, Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale demonstrate that Romanian DOM reflects a typological mix of Balkan and Romance patterns, and is in fact composed of three distinct mechanisms. Their analysis of these mechanisms reveals that DOM triggers in Romanian are located in the nominal domain, in contrast to languages such as Spanish, where they are located in the verbal domain. The cross-linguistic perspective adopted in the volume sheds light on existing typologies of DOM, particularly in relation to the variation observed in the merging location of the DOM particle and of the doubling pronominal clitic.


ISBN
9780192898791
Pagina's
304
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Serie
Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
NUR
616
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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