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Differential object marking in a dialect of Sicily

 | Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Published online: 27 November 2023
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Abstract
This contribution proposes an overview of the distribution of a-marked objects in a Romance dialect of Sicily, focusing on the relation between a-marking and the syntactic properties of the nominal structure in object position. The following properties are considered: type of lexical head (pronouns vs. nouns); coding of the Person feature on the lexical head and its relation with the functional head D; type of noun (proper names, kinship nouns, other nouns); lexical realization of the determiner (D head); definiteness and animacy of the object; Number. It will be shown that, in the dialect explored, a-marking is constrained by two major restrictions: (1) a-marking is only possible if the head D is phonetically realized, and (2) [+human] referents must be a-marked.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
  • 3.The realization of D in Sicily
    • 3.1Person and overt raising to D
    • 3.2Definite and indefinite articles
    • 3.3Towards a classification
  • 4.The distribution of a-marking in the dialect of Ragusa
    • 4.1Pronominal items
    • 4.2Proper names
    • 4.3Kinship expressions
    • 4.4Count nouns
    • 4.5Mass and abstract nouns
  • 5.Towards a taxonomy
  • 6.Some (marginal) speculations on contact
  • 7.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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