While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially. The variables which condition the differential argument marking (or DAM) pertain to various properties of the NP (such as animacy or definiteness) or to event semantics or various properties of the clause. While the main line of current research on DAM is mainly synchronic the volume tackles the diachronic perspective. The tenet is that the emergence and the development of differential marking systems provide a different kind of evidence for the understanding of the phenomenon. The present volume consists of 18 chapters and primarily brings together diachronic case studies on particular languages or language groups including e.g. Finno-Ugric, Sino-Tibetan and Japonic languages. The volume also includes a position paper, which provides an overview of the typology of different subtypes of DAM systems, a chapter on computer simulation of the emergence of DAM and a chapter devoted to the cross-linguistic effects of referential hierarchies on DAM.
Author(s): Ilja A. Seržant, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds)
Series: Studies in Diversity Linguistics 19
Publisher: Language Science Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Commentary: This title can be downloaded at: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/173
Pages: 564
Tags: Linguistics;Words, Language & Grammar;Reference;Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика
Differential argument marking: Patterns of variation
Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Ilja A. Seržant
Some like it transitive
Remarks on verbs of liking and the like in the Saami languages
Seppo Kittilä, Jussi Ylikoski
The partitive A
On uses of the Finnish partitive subject in transitive clauses
Tuomas Huumo
Differential subject marking and its demise in the history of Japanese
Yuko Yanagida
Differential A and S marking in Sumi (Naga)
Synchronic and diachronic considerations
Amos Teo
Structural case and objective conjugation in Northern Samoyedic
Melani Wratil
The diachronic development of Differential Object Marking in Spanish ditransitive constructions
Klaus von Heusinger
The rise of differential object marking in Hindi and related languages
Annie Montaut
Emergence of optional accusative case marking in Khoe languages
William B. McGregor
Nominal and verbal parameters in the diachrony of differential object marking in Spanish
Marco García García
A diachronic perspective on Differential Object Marking in pre-modern Japanese
Old Japanese and Early Middle Japanese
Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Horn, Yuko Yanagida
Verbal semantics and differential object marking in Lycopolitan Coptic
Åke Engsheden
From suffix to prefix to interposition via Differential Object Marking in Egyptian-Coptic
Eitan Grossman
Spanish indexing DOM, topicality, and the case hierarchy
Chantal Melis
The evolution of differential object marking in Alor-Pantar languages
Marian Klamer, František Kratochvíl
Differential object marking in Chichewa
Laura J. Downing
The emergence of differential case marking
Sander Lestrade
