A minimal cartography of Dierential Object Marking in Spanish

In this paper we use a minimal cartography to show that DOM constructions in Spanish have special properties that make them syntactically and semantically diferent from non-DOM constructions. First, a -marked DOs have a diferent un- derlying structure. In their structure there is a relational projec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Bassa Vanrell, María del Mar, Romeu, Juan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/72639
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/72639
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Differential Object Marking
DOM
A-marking
Spanish
Specificity
Animacy
Event Structure
Disjoint
Descripción
Sumario:In this paper we use a minimal cartography to show that DOM constructions in Spanish have special properties that make them syntactically and semantically diferent from non-DOM constructions. First, a -marked DOs have a diferent un- derlying structure. In their structure there is a relational projection (RelP) which is modifed by Disjoint, giving the interpretation that the DP complement is a recipient of the action of the verb. Second, a -marked objects occupy a diferent position in the structure from non a -marked objects: while the former occupy the complement of proc(ess), the latter occupy a modifer position. By establishing these two diferences, we provide a unifed explanation for the special properties of DOM