Author : Monica Alexandrina Irimia
Release : 2023-12-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Differential Object Marking in Romance by : Monica Alexandrina Irimia

Download or read book Differential Object Marking in Romance written by Monica Alexandrina Irimia. This book was released on 2023-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and theoretical level. Many questions are still being raised regarding which precise morpho-syntactic strategies count as differential object marking, whether the data can be unified, and, subsequently, how they are to be unified formally and theoretically. Additionally, a thorough investigation of this phenomenon is still needed for many Romance languages and especially at the micro-variation level. 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.