Balkan Romance and Southern Italo-Romance: Differential Object Marking and Its Variation
Monica Alexandrina Irimia,
Cristina Guardiano
Abstract:The main goal of this article is to examine in detail an area of the grammar where standard Romanian, a Balkan Sprachbund language of the Romance phylum, and the Romance dialects of Southern Italy (here we used the dialect of Ragusa, in South-East Sicily) appear to converge, namely differential object marking (DOM). When needed, additional observations from non-Romance Balkan languages were also taken into account. Romanian and Ragusa use a prepositional strategy for differential marking, in a conjunctive syst… Show more
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