Corsican DOM
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Pierre-Don Giancarli
Abstract
After focusing in a previous work (Giancarli, 2014) on the global factors involved in the emergence of DOM in Corsican, we would like here, based on a corpus almost twice as large, to concentrate on the local factors. We identify two: the DOM-ed object is either the marker of a scanning operation or a designator. Being able to cover most of the uses in Corsican and even integrate some marginal uses, these two factors branch into four (the scanning operation can be performed with or without totalization, and designators can be rigid or flaccid) while they can at the same time be reduced to an invariant: a DOM-ed object is an argument set out of contrast.
Abstract
After focusing in a previous work (Giancarli, 2014) on the global factors involved in the emergence of DOM in Corsican, we would like here, based on a corpus almost twice as large, to concentrate on the local factors. We identify two: the DOM-ed object is either the marker of a scanning operation or a designator. Being able to cover most of the uses in Corsican and even integrate some marginal uses, these two factors branch into four (the scanning operation can be performed with or without totalization, and designators can be rigid or flaccid) while they can at the same time be reduced to an invariant: a DOM-ed object is an argument set out of contrast.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of abbreviations vii
- Introduction 1
- Differential object marking in Barese 24
- Differential object marking in French 56
- Clitic doubling in Brazilian Portuguese as a DOM strategy 85
- Syntactic and semantic constraints on differential object marking in Old Sardinian 105
- Differential object marking in Brazilian Portuguese 135
- Corsican DOM 160
- Differential object marking in a dialect of Sicily 192
- The dative/accusative alternations in Old Romanian 232
- Differential object marking in kinship terms and animacy hierarchies in Old Sardinian 253
- Parametric variation in differential object marking in Italo-Romance 267
- A micro-comparative approach to DOM in language-contact environments 315
- Index 349
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of abbreviations vii
- Introduction 1
- Differential object marking in Barese 24
- Differential object marking in French 56
- Clitic doubling in Brazilian Portuguese as a DOM strategy 85
- Syntactic and semantic constraints on differential object marking in Old Sardinian 105
- Differential object marking in Brazilian Portuguese 135
- Corsican DOM 160
- Differential object marking in a dialect of Sicily 192
- The dative/accusative alternations in Old Romanian 232
- Differential object marking in kinship terms and animacy hierarchies in Old Sardinian 253
- Parametric variation in differential object marking in Italo-Romance 267
- A micro-comparative approach to DOM in language-contact environments 315
- Index 349
