Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish

Spanish, like many other Romance and non-Romance languages, shows Differential Object Marking (DOM), i.e., some direct objects are morphologically marked by the prepositional marker a 'to', while others remain unmarked. The literature has proposed different sentential parameters in order t...

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Autores: von Heusinger, Klaus|||0000-0001-8108-3191, Duarte, Tiago Augusto|||0000-0003-2073-4549, García, Marco|||0000-0001-8816-1893
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Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Differential object marking
DOM
Spanish
Discourse prominence
Corpus analysis
Paragraph continuation task
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spelling Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanishvon Heusinger, Klaus|||0000-0001-8108-3191Duarte, Tiago Augusto|||0000-0003-2073-4549García, Marco|||0000-0001-8816-1893Differential object markingDOMSpanishDiscourse prominenceCorpus analysisParagraph continuation taskSpanish, like many other Romance and non-Romance languages, shows Differential Object Marking (DOM), i.e., some direct objects are morphologically marked by the prepositional marker a 'to', while others remain unmarked. The literature has proposed different sentential parameters in order to capture this variation (Fábregas 2013, among others), including topicality (see Leonetti 2004, Iemmolo 2010, among others). In addition, Laca (1995: 82f.) has argued that DOM also depends on discourse properties. She assumes that in Spanish the use of DOM with an indefinite direct object signals that more information about this object referent is to be expected in the upcoming discourse (see also Comrie 1981/1989). First empirical evidence for this hypothesis comes from DOM in Romanian (Chiriacescu & von Heusinger 2010). In this paper we explore the hypothesis that, in Spanish, human indefinite direct objects with DOM show more forward-looking potential than those without DOM. We present original results from two corpus studies and two paragraph continuation tasks. The corpus studies provide support for the discourse effect of DOM, while the paragraph continuation tasks do not, which might be due to the particular design of our experimental items. We evaluate the different parameters that contribute to the discourse prominence of a direct object with DOM and those that might mask such effects. We conclude that there is evidence that DOM contributes to discourse prominence, but that further studies are necessary. 22024-01-0120242024-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/293648https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.394reponame: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, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2936482026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
title Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
spellingShingle Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
von Heusinger, Klaus|||0000-0001-8108-3191
Differential object marking
DOM
Spanish
Discourse prominence
Corpus analysis
Paragraph continuation task
title_short Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
title_full Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
title_fullStr Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
title_sort Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv von Heusinger, Klaus|||0000-0001-8108-3191
Duarte, Tiago Augusto|||0000-0003-2073-4549
García, Marco|||0000-0001-8816-1893
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author_facet von Heusinger, Klaus|||0000-0001-8108-3191
Duarte, Tiago Augusto|||0000-0003-2073-4549
García, Marco|||0000-0001-8816-1893
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García, Marco|||0000-0001-8816-1893
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Differential object marking
DOM
Spanish
Discourse prominence
Corpus analysis
Paragraph continuation task
topic Differential object marking
DOM
Spanish
Discourse prominence
Corpus analysis
Paragraph continuation task
description Spanish, like many other Romance and non-Romance languages, shows Differential Object Marking (DOM), i.e., some direct objects are morphologically marked by the prepositional marker a 'to', while others remain unmarked. The literature has proposed different sentential parameters in order to capture this variation (Fábregas 2013, among others), including topicality (see Leonetti 2004, Iemmolo 2010, among others). In addition, Laca (1995: 82f.) has argued that DOM also depends on discourse properties. She assumes that in Spanish the use of DOM with an indefinite direct object signals that more information about this object referent is to be expected in the upcoming discourse (see also Comrie 1981/1989). First empirical evidence for this hypothesis comes from DOM in Romanian (Chiriacescu & von Heusinger 2010). In this paper we explore the hypothesis that, in Spanish, human indefinite direct objects with DOM show more forward-looking potential than those without DOM. We present original results from two corpus studies and two paragraph continuation tasks. The corpus studies provide support for the discourse effect of DOM, while the paragraph continuation tasks do not, which might be due to the particular design of our experimental items. We evaluate the different parameters that contribute to the discourse prominence of a direct object with DOM and those that might mask such effects. We conclude that there is evidence that DOM contributes to discourse prominence, but that further studies are necessary.
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