(In)definiteness, specificity, object marking and differential object marking

• Autores: Luis López
• Localización: Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance / coord. por Susann Fischer, Christoph Gabriel, 2016, ISBN 9783110311785, págs. 241-265
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A number of Romance languages exhibit Di ff erential Object Marking, a phenomenon in which a subset of direct objects is distinguished by means of a morphological mark or syntactic displacement. It has long been known that this mark correlates with semantic or pragmatic features such as speci fi city and topicality, which makes it an ideal playground to investigate the interfaces between syntax and interpretation. This chapter argues that DOM, in fact, provides interesting evidence for a particular theory of the role that syntactic con fi guration plays in semantic interpretation.