The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

✍ Scribed by Virginia Hill, Alexandru Mardale

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. DOM, a means by which a grammar distinguishes between objects based on semantic features such as animacy or definiteness, has been a fruitful area of research in syntax, historical linguistics, and typology. In this volume, Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale demonstrate that Romanian DOM reflects a typological mix of Balkan and Romance patterns, and is in fact composed of three distinct mechanisms. Their analysis of these mechanisms reveals that DOM triggers in Romanian are located in the nominal domain, in contrast to languages such as Spanish, where they are located in the verbal domain. The cross-linguistic perspective adopted in the volume sheds light on existing typologies of DOM, particularly in relation to the variation observed in the merging location of the DOM particle and of the doubling pronominal clitic.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian
Copyright
Contents
Series preface
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
Abbreviations
1: Introduction
1.1 Previous research
1.2 The contribution of this book
1.3 Data
1.4 Methodology
1.5 Definitions
1.6 Structure of the volume
2: Two patterns for differential object marking: Balkan and Romance
2.1 Syntactic patterns in Romanian
2.1.1 Clause structure: word order
2.1.2 The pronominal system
2.1.3 The case system
2.1.4 Nominal phrases
2.2 Differential object marking in Balkan languages
2.2.1 Clitic doubling in the Balkan Sprachbund
2.2.2 CD in Balkan Romance
2.2.2.1 Aromanian
2.2.2.2 Megleno-Romanian
2.2.2.3 Istro-Romanian
2.3 Differential object marking in Romance languages
2.3.1 Origins
2.3.2 DOM micro-variation in Romance languages
2.3.2.1 Group 1
2.3.2.2 Group 2
2.3.2.3 Group 3
2.3.2.4 Relevance for Romanian DOM
2.4 CD from a Romance perspective
2.5 Summary
3: Differential object marking in Old Romanian
3.1 General remarks
3.1.1 Semantic scales
3.1.2 Variations in the grammaticalization of pre
3.1.3 Definite article restriction
3.1.4 DOM in Church Slavonic
3.2 Indirect objects
3.2.1 Morpho-syntactic properties
3.2.2 CD with indirect objects
3.3 Direct objects
3.3.1 DOM with direct objects: general properties
3.3.1.1 Semantic scales
3.3.1.2 Discourse pragmatics
3.3.1.3 Unsystematic marking
3.3.2 Statistics
3.3.3 DOM through clitic doubling
3.3.4 DOM through DOM-p
3.3.4.1 Frequency and language registers
3.3.4.2 Semantic scales
3.3.4.3 Discourse triggers
3.3.5 DOM through CD/DOM-p
3.4 Summary
4: Differential object marking in Modern Romanian
4.1 Indirect objects
4.1.1 Constituents with dative case marking
4.1.2 CD with indirect objects
4.2 Direct objects: CD and DOM-p
4.2.1 CD with direct objects
4.2.2 DOM-p
4.2.2.1 Spellout
4.2.2.2 Definiteness/specificity scale
4.2.2.3 Animacy
4.2.2.4 Interpretation
4.3 Direct objects: CD+DOM-p
4.3.1 Semantic features
4.3.2 Personal pronouns
4.3.3 Proper nouns
4.3.4 Definite common nouns
4.3.5 Indefinites
4.4 Statistics
4.5 Clitic left dislocation (CLLD)
4.6 Summary
5: The grammaticalization of pe
5.1 Etymology
5.2 Changes to the preposition pe
5.3 Sources of DOM pe
5.4 Changes to DOM pe
5.5 Comparison with Sardinian and Spanish
5.5.1 Semantic scales
5.5.2 Verb properties for DOM-p
5.5.3 Clitic Left Dislocation and DOM-p
5.6 Summary
6: Formal approaches to DOM
6.1 The clausal approach
6.1.1 López (2012)
6.1.1.1 Binding of possessives
6.1.1.2 Binding of reflexives
6.1.1.3 Case restrictions
6.1.2 Ordóñez & Roca (2018)
6.1.2.1 Extraction from a complex DP
6.1.2.2 Relativization from an adjunct island
6.2 The nominal approach
6.2.1 DOM-p and DP structure
6.2.2 DOM and clitics
6.2.2.1 CD in Romance languages
6.2.2.2 CD in Balkan languages
7: A formal approach to Romanian DOM
7.1 Framework
7.2 DOM pe is not a preposition
7.2.1 Prepositional Phrases
7.2.2 Restrictions with DOM pe
7.3 DP structure
7.3.1 Modern Romanian DP
7.3.2 Old Romanian DP
7.4 DOM configurations
7.4.1 DOM through DOM-p
7.4.2 CD versus CLLD
7.4.3 DOM through CD
7.4.4 DOM through CD+DOM-p
7.5 DOM and the clause
7.6 Summary and follow-up
8: Conclusions
Appendix: Romanian and Romania
A.1 History
A.2 Language
A.3 Texts
List of Romanian texts
References
Index of languages (excluding Romanian)
Index of Authors
Index of Terms
Backmatter Series Page