Differential Object Marking and identifiability of the referent
A study of Mandarin Chinese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4788948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giorgio Iemmolo (University of Zurich, corresponding author), Giorgio Francesco Arcodia (0000-0002-7324-8352, University of Milano-Bicocca) |
| 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-2013-0064 |
| OpenAlex | W1994521282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper examines the interaction of DOM with information structure in Mandarin Chinese. Despite the large amount of works on this topic, much remains to be explained, in particular with respect to some alternations that do not easily fit the explanations proposed so far in terms of affectedness, animacy and definiteness. Through the analysis of text excerpts taken from the Corpus of Modern Chinese of the Center for Chinese Linguistics (CCL) of Peking University, we argue that, in addition to previously identified constraints, DOM in Mandarin Chinese performs another important function in discourse, namely that of signalling the high identifiability of the marked referent
Animacy · Definiteness · Identifiability · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Object (grammar) · Referent · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Syntax
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |