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The development of DOM in the diachrony of Catalan: (dis)similarities with respect to Spanish

# metadata.dc.description.abstract[].value
The existence of Differential Object Marking (DOM) is well-established in a number of Romance languages and varieties, such as Spanish and Romanian, where its use extends to several types of direct objects. For other languages in the Romance family, like Catalan, DOM is often considered to be absent, except for personal pro-nouns and a few other cases – at least from the perspective of normative grammar. However,  in  most  varieties  of  Catalan,  DOM  applies  to  human  direct  objects  gener-ally, including proper names, definites and some indefinites, and even occasionally extends to bare plurals or inanimates. Although an exhaustive dialectal survey on the exact prevalence of DOM has yet to be carried out, it is clear that it is widespread and features in many dialects. While one might initially assume that this is the result of the influence of Spanish, such instances (at least partially) might in fact have arisen from  the  internal  evolution  of  Catalan.  Crucially,  instances  of  DOM  were  remarka-bly  abundant  in  Old  Catalan,  although  this  has  sometimes  gone  quite  unnoticed.  That  is,  instances  of  DOM  with  proper  names  and  human  NPs  are  found  in  earlier  Catalan texts (in the 13th to 15th centuries), and increase quite significantly from the 16th  century  on,  reaching  very  high  percentages  of  occurrences  in  some  texts.  The  aim of this paper is to offer an account of the emergence and development of DOM in Catalan over time, showing the commonalities with neighbouring Spanish, as well as the important differences that distinguish these two languages. This is a large corpus study, based on the Corpus Informatitzat del Català Antic, and comprising the period from the first written texts to the 16th century, with some notes on the 17th century too.

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This work has been supported by a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación fellowship from  Spain’s  Ministry  of  Economy  and  Competitiveness  (IJCI-2016-30474)  and  research  project  funding from the same ministry (FFI2014-56968-C4-1-P), as well as by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers).

# metadata.dc.identifier.citation[].value
Pineda, A. (2021): The development of DOM in the diachrony of Catalan: (dis)similarities with respect to Spanish. DINS: Johannes Kabatek, Philipp Obrist & Albert Wall (ed.): Differential Object Marking in Romance - The third wave. Berlin: De Gruyter, ISBN: 978-31-1064-656-6, pp. 243-277

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Capítol del llibre: Johannes Kabatek, Philipp Obrist & Albert Wall (ed.): Differential Object Marking in Romance - The third wave. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, ISBN: 978-31-1064-656-6, pp. 243-277

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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie ; 459

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Llibres / Capítols de llibre (Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General)

# metadata.dc.title[].value
The development of DOM in the diachrony of Catalan: (dis)similarities with respect to Spanish