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

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...

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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
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Summary: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 languages (Manzini and Franco 2016 for recent assessment of the phenomenon). In the closely related standard Spanish, to mention a well-known case, lexical direct objects are introduced by the same preposition a, with constraints depending on the nature of the direct object (such as e.g., its specificity and animacy).
ISBN:9781501506734-016
9781501515347; 9781501506635
Access:Open Access

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