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Object Marking Variation

Object Marking Variation is a syntactic phenomenon in which the morphosyntactic marking of direct objects varies across dialects, languages, or sociolects, typically conditioned by referential, animacy, or definiteness properties of the object noun phrase.

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Differential Object Marking: Iconicity vs. Economy

Judith Aissen · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2003 · 1.1K citations

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Object asymmetries in comparative Bantu syntax

Joan Bresnan, Lioba Moshi · Linguistic Inquiry · 1990 · 542 citations

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Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish

Manuel Leonetti · Catalan Journal of Linguistics · 2004 · 314 citations · Full text

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What markedness marks: the markedness problem with direct objects

Åshild Næss · Lingua · 2003 · 265 citations

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Object marking and morphosyntactic variation in Bantu

Lutz Marten, Nancy C. Kula · Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies · 2012 · 220 citations

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Authors

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    Klaus von Heusinger

    University of Stuttgart, Germany

    7 publications · 342 citations

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    Silvina Montrul

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    4 publications · 171 citations

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  3. LM
    Lutz Marten

    SOAS University of London, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 635 citations

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  4. MA
    Monica Alexandrina Irimia

    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

    3 publications · 70 citations

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  5. MD
    Michael Diercks

    Pomona College, United States

    2 publications · 190 citations

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Institutions

73

  1. University of Stuttgart

    Stuttgart, Germany

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    342 citations

  2. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    531 citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    246 citations

  4. University of Cologne

    Cologne, Germany

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    197 citations

  5. SOAS University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    632 citations

  6. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    117 citations

  7. UiT The Arctic University of Norway

    Tromsø, Norway

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    167 citations

  8. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

    Modena, Italy

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    51 citations

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  2. Linguistics

    6 publications · 289 citations

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  3. Glossa a journal of general linguistics

    5 publications · 292 citations

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  4. Probus

    4 publications · 401 citations

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  5. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

    3 publications · 329 citations

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