Introduction

Iemmolo, Giorgio; Klumpp, Gerson

doi:10.1515/ling-2013-0062

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“…Given the notorious convergence of these two features, it seems methodologically highly relevant that we were able to tease them apart only through systematic investigation of a varied text corpus, taking into account differences in text registers, and the content and topics of classes of texts. In this sense, our study adds to the more recent findings of typological and theoretical studies in the differential treatment of objects that claim topicality to be primary over semantic salience (Dalrymple & Nikolaeva, 2011; Iemmolo, 2010; Iemmolo & Klumpp, 2014 and contributions therein; Schwenter, 2006, 2014). However, while Dalrymple and Nikolaeva, for instance, identified sentence topicality as the relevant factor, which they saw as resulting from discourse topicality, our findings suggest discourse topicality as a factor in its own right, distinct not only from more or less correlating semantic features of animacy, but also from sentence topicality.…”

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Discourse motivations for pronominal and zero objects across registers in Vera'a

Schnell

Barth

2018

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The choice between pronominal and zero form for objects in the Oceanic language Vera'a is investigated quantitatively in texts from two registers with discourse topics of three different ontological class memberships. Discourse topicality is found to predict best the choice between pronoun and zero, outranking the factors of ontological class membership, antecedent form, and antecedent function. Contrary to current models of referent tracking, antecedent distance does not show any effect at all. It is concluded that (a) discourse structure and activation are not universally the most significant factors in referential choice and (b) ontological class and discourse topicality can be teased apart through appropriate text sampling, and it is the latter that is most significant. This bears important implications for the grammaticalization of object agreement and the typology of differential object marking.

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Discourse motivations for pronominal and zero objects across registers in Vera'a

Schnell

Barth

2018

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“…Geoffrey Haigʼs contribution "The grammaticalization of object pronouns: Why Differential Object Indexing is an attractor state", proceeds from the observation that crosslinguistically, obligatory person indexing in the feature of person is areally and typologically widely attested for subjects, while obligatory indexing of objects (in the feature of person) is exceedingly rare. Where object indexing is found, it is generally not obligatory, but conditioned, what Iemmolo and Klumpp (2014) refer to as Differential Object Indexing (DOI). Conventional approaches to the grammaticalization of agreement nevertheless continue to assume a unified grammaticalization pathway from pronoun to agreement marker (e.g., Siewierska 2004;Fuß 2005; Van Gelderen 2011), hence do not predict the subject/object asymmetry that is actually attested.…”

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Agreement in grammar and discourse: A research overview

Haig

Forker

2018

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Agreement is among the most widely-researched issues in theoretical linguistics. In this introduction, we critically review some of the key issues, focussing on typological approaches to agreement, the role of agreement in establishing and maintaining reference, and the emergence of agreement diachronically. We point to the interplay of semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors in shaping the way agreement systems function, and emphasize the need for more usage-based research in understanding the impact of extra-syntactic factors. We also argue for greater attention to lesser-researched languages, particularly those where features other than person are central in agreement relations. Finally, we offer a short synopsis of the contributions to this issue.

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“…In recent years, alternation between an accusative case and a partitive-genitive or a partitive case as typical of several ancient and modern Indo-European languages 1 or of Balto-Finnic languages has been described as an instance of symmetric differential object marking, or DOM (see De Hoop and Malchukov 2008;Iemmolo 2013;Iemmolo and Klumpp 2014). 2 Iemmolo and Klumpp (2014: 271) define optional DOM as "the phenomenon whereby only a subset of direct objects are case-marked depending on the semantic and/or pragmatic properties of the object referent. "…”

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Beyond affectedness – partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient Greek

Luraghi

2022

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In several ancient and modern Indo-European languages, the partitive-genitive may be used in place of the accusative to encode the second argument of two-place verbs. In Ancient Greek the two types of object encoding can alternate with change-of-state verbs, alternation being viewed as connected with degrees of patient affectedness: the partitive-genitive encodes partially affected objects. Alternation also extends to experiential verbs, which are typically characterized by a low degree of transitivity and do not imply any change of state of the object-stimulus. Rather than concentrating on the implications of case alternation on the construal of the object, I consider the effects of variation on the whole construction, and argue that genitive vs. accusative marking of the object (NomGen vs. NomAcc constructions) reflects the construal of the subject-experiencer. While the different construal of the experiencer in terms of degrees of control cross-linguistically often results in non-nominative encoding of the experiencer, in Ancient Greek it is object encoding that affects the construal of the experiencer and reflects a scale based on possible control. The distribution of constructions with experiential verbs shows that NomAcc is typical of verbs of sight, thought, intellectual knowledge and emotions connected to sight and awareness, such as wonder and fear. NomGen is connected with touch, smell, taste, memory, forgetfulness, care and desire. In the in-between area, verbs of hearing, learning and verbs of affection may feature both accusative and genitive encoding, thus constituting a fuzzy transition area. The connection between sight and other experiential verbs that feature accusative encoding reflects an embodied conceptualization of experiential situations.

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Introduction

Cited by 12 publications

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Discourse motivations for pronominal and zero objects across registers in Vera'a

Discourse motivations for pronominal and zero objects across registers in Vera'a

Agreement in grammar and discourse: A research overview

Beyond affectedness – partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient Greek

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