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ROA 1016-0209

Non-Zero/Non-Zero Alternations in Differential Object Marking

Stefan Keine <stkeine at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Gereon Mueller <gereon.mueller at uni-leipzig.de>

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Abstract:
This paper proposes an analysis of alternations between
two or more overt markers in differential object marking,
which we claim to follow from impoverishment. Impoverishment
in turn is conditioned and constrained by constraint interaction.
The constraint ranking is not arbitrary but the result of
harmonic alignment of markedness scales and local conjunction.
Restrictions on impoverishment are then derived as restrictions
on constraint orderings.
The proposal is founded on the empirical observation that
differential object marking is not restricted to zero/non-zero
alternations but may also exist between two or more overt
markers. We consider data from Hindi, Mannheim German, Trumai
and Cavineña.

Comments: to appear in Proceedings of NELS 39
Keywords: differential object marking, impoverishment, syntax-morphology interface, markedness scales, harmonic alignment
Areas: Syntax,Morphology
Type: Conference Proceedings Chapter

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