A typological perspective on Differential Object Marking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5159456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kaius Sinnemäki (0000-0002-6972-5216, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2013-0063 |
| OpenAlex | W1969168357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
Case marking of the object is often claimed to be driven specifically by two referential properties of the object, animacy and definiteness. Data from 744 languages, however, provide typological evidence that there is no universal preference for object case marking to be driven by these properties, but at the same time provide strong evidence that object case marking tends to be restricted in some way rather than be generalized across all objects. I argue that the independence of object case marking from these two semantic-pragmatic properties may be explained by the instability of their relationship, and that economy provides a feasible explanation for restricting case marking to only some objects
Animacy · Definiteness · Independence (probability theory) · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Perspective (graphical) · Artificial Intelligence · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |