TY  - CHAP
AU  - Belletti, Adriana
ED  - Petrosino, Roberto
ED  - Cerrone, Pietro
ED  - van der Hulst, Harry
AB  - Standard Italian is known not to mark lexical direct objects through use of a prep-osition.1 This is in contrast with southern varieties, in which lexical direct objects are typically introduced by preposition a, as an instance of the Differential Object Marking/DOM phenomenon, found in several languages (Manzini and Franco 2016 for recent assessment of the phenomenon). In the closely related standard Spanish, to mention a well-known case, lexical direct objects are introduced by the same preposition a, with constraints depending on the nature of the direct object (such as e.g., its specificity and animacy).
DO  - 10.1515/9781501506734-016
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006337
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135846431
KW  - Phonology
KW  - Morpho-phonology
KW  - Morpho-syntax
KW  - Italian Dialectology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8b59c819-e2c0-4b4c-b392-3685779df1c9/85_[9781501506734 - From Sounds to Structures] On a-marking.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23802
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781501515347; 9781501506635
TI  - Chapter On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left peripherynull
ER  - 
