Chapter On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery

• Main Author: Belletti, Adriana (auth)
• Other Authors: Petrosino, Roberto (Editor), Cerrone, Pietro (Editor), van der Hulst, Harry (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2018
• Subjects: linguistics; Phonetics, phonology; Phonology; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Italian Dialectology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Standard Italian is known not to mark lexical direct objects through use of a prep-osition.1 This is in contrast with southern varieties, in which lexical direct objects are typically introduced by preposition a, as an instance of the Differential Object Marking/DOM phenomenon, found in several lang...