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3 - Differential Object Marking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2022

Silvina Montrul
Silvina Montrul
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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The study presented in this book focuses on the acquisition, maintenance and change of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish, English and Romanian in contact with English in the United States. Differential Object Marking (DOM) is the overt marking of some direct objects and is a widespread among languages of the world. DOM is an iconic procedure because the arguments that are overtly marked morphologically are more salient/prominent semantically or pragmatically than unmarked objects. This chapter describes how DOM is manifested in Spanish, Romanian and Hindi and presents current syntactic synchronic analyses of the phenomenon in these languages. The diachronic evolution of DOM in language contact situations is also discussed.

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differential object markinganimacydefinitenessreferentialityaccusative clitic doublingSpanishHindiRomanianDistributed Morphologydifferential subject marking
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Native Speakers, Interrupted
Differential Object Marking and Language Change in Heritage Languages
 , pp. 82 - 107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Differential Object Marking
  • Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Native Speakers, Interrupted
  • Online publication: 15 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316459690.005
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  • Differential Object Marking
  • Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Native Speakers, Interrupted
  • Online publication: 15 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316459690.005
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  • Differential Object Marking
  • Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Native Speakers, Interrupted
  • Online publication: 15 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316459690.005
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