Open AccessDifferential object marking in Ibero-Romance languages: Explanatory models in domestic and Russian educational literature
Author(s) -
N. Pakhmutova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
rhema. rema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2500-2953
DOI - 10.31862/2500-2953-2019-2-61-76
Subject(s) - phenomenon , catalan , animacy , romance languages , scope (computer science) , linguistics , object (grammar) , grammar , explanatory model , explanatory power , norm (philosophy) , history , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , programming language
Differential object marking / dom is the term for the phenomenon of distinguishing two classes of direct objects, one bearing a special marker, while the other lacking it. In modern linguistics, the marker licensing is partially or fully attributed to the features of a direct object: Animacy/Inanimacy and referential status. Russian didactic literature generally contains a reduced explanatory model of Spanish dom, based on the grammar of the Royal Spanish Academy. For Catalan, the explanatory model is complicated by the usus/norm split, the latter reducing the phenomenon’s scope. The paper focuses on the improvement of dom explanatory models for Spanish and Catalan.