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- Title
On the nature of differential object marking.
- Authors
Levin, Theodore
- Abstract
Palauan (Austronesian) displays a pattern of differential object marking that is limited to the imperfective aspect. In the imperfective, human and/or specific objects are overtly marked. In the perfective aspect, no objects are overtly marked. Conversely, objects in the perfective aspect are cross-referenced by agreement morphology on the verb, while objects in the imperfective aspect never are. I argue that this pattern of aspect-conditioned differential object marking provides support for the position that the phenomenon is best analyzed as arising due to the result of satisfying exceptional licensing requirements enforced by a subset of noun phrases (Kalin 2014).
- Subjects
PALAUAN language; VERBS; NOUN phrases (Grammar); SIMILARITY (Language learning); FRAMES (Linguistics)
- Publication
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2019, Vol 37, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
0167-806X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11049-018-9412-5