DOM and dative case

Main author: Barany, Andras
Format: Journal Article           
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recordtype eprints
institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
topic P Philology. Linguistics
PC Romanic languages
PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures
description In some languages with DOM, the exponents of DOM and dative are homophonous, e.g. in Spanish and Hindi. I argue that this pattern is not due to DOM objects and indirect objects being represented identically in syntax, but due to syncretism between accusative and dative case in these languages. This is indicated by a number of syntactic tests which group DOM objects with morphologically zero-coded direct objects, rather than with indirect objects, including nominalisation, relativisation, controlling secondary predicates, and passivisation. I suggest that languages with a ditransitive alternation between direct/indirect and primary/secondary objects provide further support for the syntactic difference of DOM and dative objects.
format Journal Article
author Barany, Andras
author_facet Barany, Andras
authorStr Barany, Andras
author_letter Barany, Andras
title DOM and dative case
publisher Ubiquity Press
publishDate 2018
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26016/