The diachrony of morphosyntactic alignment

F Zúñiga - Language and linguistics compass, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With morphological and syntactic argument properties, some arguments behave alike (ie,
they align with each other) while others do not. Such alignment patterns have received …

Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar: Supplementary material

G Carling, C Cathcart - Language, 2021 - muse.jhu.edu
Here, we describe the process used to generate the tree sample used for inference in this
paper, as well as the details of the inference process used to infer evolutionary transition …

Variation versus deviation: Early bilingual acquisition of Spanish differential object marking

PE Requena - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
Naturalistic production research has reported that, unlike monolingual peers, children
acquiring Spanish as a heritage language omit Differential Object Marking (DOM) with …

The independent partitive as an Eastern Circum-Baltic isogloss

IA Seržant - Journal of Language Contact, 2015 - brill.com
The paper claims that the independent partitive case in Finnic languages and the
independent partitive genitive case in Baltic and East Slavic (henceforth: ip (g)) show …

Communicative efficiency and differential case marking: A reverse-engineering approach

N Levshina - Linguistics Vanguard, 2021 - degruyter.com
The use of differential case marking of A and P has been explained in terms of efficiency
(economy) and markedness. The present study tests predictions based on these accounts …

[图书][B] Marcado diferencial de objeto y semántica verbal en español

DR Heredero - 2022 - library.oapen.org
The book examines the impact of verbal semantics–telicity and affectedness, mostly–on
differential object marking (DOM) in Spanish. It presents two studies providing empirical …

Optional and alternating case marking: Typology and diachrony

H Chappell, JC Verstraete - Language and Linguistics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a survey of the typology and diachrony of optional and alternating case
marking, in the context of related phenomena such as referent‐and construction‐based …

[PDF][PDF] Differential object marking in sign languages

CA Börstell - 2019 - repository.ubn.ru.nl
Sign languages are sometimes claimed to lack argument marking, yet they exhibit many
devices to track and disambiguate referents. In this paper, I will argue that there are devices …

Differential object marking and language contact: An introduction to this special issue

A Mardale, P Karatsareas - Journal of Language Contact, 2020 - brill.com
This special issue includes a selection of papers that were presented at the in ternational
workshop themed Differential Object Marking and Language Contact that was organised by …

Pathways to split ergativity: The rise of ergative alignment in Anatolian and Indo-Aryan

E Dahl - Diachronica, 2021 - jbe-platform.com
This paper reassesses the rise of ergative alignment in Anatolian and Indo-Aryan, two
branches of the Indo-European linguistic family. Both of these branches acquire split …