Irimia, Monica Alexandrina
(ed.)
Mardale, Alexandru
(ed.)
Editorial: John Benjamins Publishing
Colección: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; 108
Número de páginas: 356 págs.
Fecha de edición: 01-10-2023
EAN: 9789027213907
ISBN: 978-90-272-1390-7
Precio (sin IVA): 138,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 143,52 €
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.