Chapter On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery

Author:: Belletti, Adriana
Published:: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2018
Additional Creators:: Cerrone, Pietro, Petrosino, Roberto, and van der Hulst, Harry

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Standard Italian is known not to mark lexical direct objects through use of a prep-osition.1 This is in contrast with southern varieties, in which lexical direct objects are typically introduced by preposition a, as an instance of the Differential Object Marking/DOM phenomenon, found in several languages (Manzini and Franco 2016 for recent assessment of the phenomenon). In the closely related standard Spanish, to mention a well-known case, lexical direct objects are introduced by the same preposition a, with constraints depending on the nature of the direct object (such as e.g., its specificity and animacy).

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9781501506734-016
9781501515347; 9781501506635

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FP7 Ideas: European Research Council

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