Interaction of nominal and verbal features for Differential Object Marking (B04)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281511265

The project investigates Differential Object Marking (DOM) and related morphosyntactic phenomena in Spanish. It will examine (i) specific (sub)classes of the referentiality hierarchy from a diachronic and syn-chronic perspective, (ii) the interaction between DOM and clitic doubling of the direct object - that is, differential object indexing (DOI), and (iii) the dependency of null objects from prominence management in discourse. These three research topics will be explored in both Old Spanish and modern Spanish, taking into account language variation and change.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1252: Prominence in Language
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Dr. Javier Caro Reina; Professor Dr. Marco García García; Professor Dr. Klaus von Heusinger, until 12/2024