Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish

The use of the preposition a with direct objects in Spanish is a well known instance of the general phenomenon of Differential Object Marking (DOM). In Spanish grammars the insertion of a is usually presented as dependent on two basic factors: animacy and referentiality/specificity. The correlation...

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Autor: Leonetti, Manuel|||0000-0003-0599-596X
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Data de publicação:2004
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Animacy
Topicality
Object marking
Inference
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spelling Specificity and Differential Object Marking in SpanishLeonetti, Manuel|||0000-0003-0599-596XSpecificityAnimacyTopicalityObject markingInferenceThe use of the preposition a with direct objects in Spanish is a well known instance of the general phenomenon of Differential Object Marking (DOM). In Spanish grammars the insertion of a is usually presented as dependent on two basic factors: animacy and referentiality/specificity. The correlation between the object marker and specificity is not systematic, basically because animacy -and not specificity- is the dominant trigger for DOM in Spanish, but a number of facts still indicate that the presence of a tends to be associated with specific readings. In order to account for these facts without positing any [+specific] feature in the linguistic meaning of a, I try to show that it contributes to utterance interpretation as an internal topic marker. This seems to be the simplest way to derive «specificity effects», and to account for the crosslinguistic similarities between DOM and other grammatical phenomena (topicalization, clitic doubling, scrambling). 22004-01-0120042004-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/2823https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.106reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:28232026-06-06T12:50:31Z
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spellingShingle Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish
Leonetti, Manuel|||0000-0003-0599-596X
Specificity
Animacy
Topicality
Object marking
Inference
title_short Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish
title_full Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish
title_fullStr Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish
title_sort Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish
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Animacy
Topicality
Object marking
Inference
topic Specificity
Animacy
Topicality
Object marking
Inference
description The use of the preposition a with direct objects in Spanish is a well known instance of the general phenomenon of Differential Object Marking (DOM). In Spanish grammars the insertion of a is usually presented as dependent on two basic factors: animacy and referentiality/specificity. The correlation between the object marker and specificity is not systematic, basically because animacy -and not specificity- is the dominant trigger for DOM in Spanish, but a number of facts still indicate that the presence of a tends to be associated with specific readings. In order to account for these facts without positing any [+specific] feature in the linguistic meaning of a, I try to show that it contributes to utterance interpretation as an internal topic marker. This seems to be the simplest way to derive «specificity effects», and to account for the crosslinguistic similarities between DOM and other grammatical phenomena (topicalization, clitic doubling, scrambling).
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