Differential Subject Marking

Author : Helen de Hoop
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789048122639
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Differential Subject Marking written by Helen de Hoop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This is known as Differential Subject Marking (DSM). Containing illuminating discussions of DSM from languages all over the world, this book shows that DSM is often the result of interactions between conflicting constraints on language use.

Author : Helen de Hoop
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402064977
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Differential Subject Marking written by Helen de Hoop and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This is known as Differential Subject Marking (DSM). Containing illuminating discussions of DSM from languages all over the world, this book shows that DSM is often the result of interactions between conflicting constraints on language use.

Author : Ilja A. Seržant
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100853
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diachrony of differential argument marking written by Ilja A. Seržant and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially. The variables which condition the differential argument marking (or DAM) pertain to various properties of the NP (such as animacy or definiteness) or to event semantics or various properties of the clause. While the main line of current research on DAM is mainly synchronic the volume tackles the diachronic perspective. The tenet is that the emergence and the development of differential marking systems provide a different kind of evidence for the understanding of the phenomenon. The present volume consists of 18 chapters and primarily brings together diachronic case studies on particular languages or language groups including e.g. Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan and Japonic languages. The volume also includes a position paper, which provides an overview of the typology of different subtypes of DAM systems, a chapter on computer simulation of the emergence of DAM and a chapter devoted to the cross-linguistic effects of referential hierarchies on DAM.

Author : Alexandru Mardale
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261091
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking written by Alexandru Mardale and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has evolved diachronically in many languages, whereas it has disappeared from others; it is easily acquired by monolingual children, but presents high instability and variability in bilingual acquisition and language contact situations. This edited collection contributes to further our understanding of the nature and development of DOM in the languages of the world, in acquisition, and in language contact, variation, and change. The thirteen chapters in this volume present new empirical data from Estonian, Spanish, Turkish, Korean, Hindi, Romanian and Basque in different acquisition contexts and learner populations. They also bring together multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives to account for the complexity and dynamicity of this widespread linguistic phenomenon.

Author : Johannes Kabatek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110716232
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Differential Object Marking in Romance written by Johannes Kabatek and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently introducing new methods, deepening the level of analysis, and offering new perspectives on the issue. This volume presents 11 innovative, original contributions representative of this “third wave” of studies on DOM in Romance.

Author : Olga Kagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841642X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Case written by Olga Kagan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on data from a wide range of languages, the book discusses the ways in which case interacts with meaning.

Author : Ane Berro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395393
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basque and Romance written by Ane Berro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aligning Grammars: Basque and Romance offers a theoretically-informed in-depth description of several linguistic structures of Basque and surrounding Romance languages. Its goal is to shed some light on the linguistic systems of these languages and their interactions.

Author : Nora Moser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781639891511
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Differential Argument Marking: Volume 1 written by Nora Moser and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential argument marking is an umbrella term for languages encoding the same grammatical function, such as the subject or the object, in different ways. It consists of non-uniform encoding of arguments in relation to grammatical case marking, and in terms of the presence or absence of agreement on the verb. There are several sub-types of differential argument marking based on the grammatical function or the semantic role of the differentially-marked argument. These sub-types are differential subject marking, differential object marking, differential agent marking, differential recipient marking and differential theme marking. This book traces the progress of this field and highlights some of its key concepts and applications. Different approaches, evaluations, methodologies and advanced studies on differential argument marking have been included herein. A number of latest researches have been included in this book to keep the readers up-to-date with the global concepts in this area of study.

Author : Nora Moser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781639891528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Differential Argument Marking: Volume 2 written by Nora Moser and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differential argument marking is an umbrella term for languages encoding the same grammatical function, such as the subject or the object, in different ways. It consists of non-uniform encoding of arguments in relation to grammatical case marking, and in terms of the presence or absence of agreement on the verb. There are several sub-types of differential argument marking based on the grammatical function or the semantic role of the differentially-marked argument. These sub-types are differential subject marking, differential object marking, differential agent marking, differential recipient marking and differential theme marking. This book traces the progress of this field and highlights some of its key concepts and applications. Different approaches, evaluations, methodologies and advanced studies on differential argument marking have been included herein. A number of latest researches have been included in this book to keep the readers up-to-date with the global concepts in this area of study.

Author : Peter de Swart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-linguistic Variation in Object Marking written by Peter de Swart and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation shows how languages differ in their morphosyntactic sensitivity to variations in the semantics of direct objects. Whereas some languages reflect semantic changes of the direct object in its marking others do not. As a result, we observe mismatches between semantic and morphosyntactic transitivity in the latter type of languages. This becomes particularly clear in a detailed study of the cognate object construction in English. Besides, this dissertation shows that a cross-linguistically uniform phenomenon can be driven by various motivations. This is demonstrated for differential object marking, a cross-linguistically recurrent phenomenon in which direct objects are overtly case marked depending on their semantic features. Two factors appear to govern differential object marking cross-linguistically: prominence-based marking and recoverability of grammatical roles. For some languages only one of these factors can be identified to be of importance, but in other languages, they are simultaneously responsible for object marking. In order to accommodate the full pattern of differential object marking, a bidirectional optimality-theoretic model is developed in which speakers take into account the perspective of the hearer. By doing so, this study shows how typological and optimality theoretical insights can be combined in order to gain more insight in the interaction of the universal principles that guide the marking of direct objects in natural language.