The accusative morpheme -(y)i in Turkish and differential object marking in Romanian

Romanian differentially marked object DPs and object DPs carrying the accusative morphological marker -(y)i in Turkish pattern alike in that they acquire a specific (D-linked / covert partitive) meaning. The semantic contribution of specificity as D-linking is to link the denotation of the (specific...

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Main Author: Alina-Mihaela Tigău
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2012-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_accusative_morpheme_-yi_in_turkish_and_differential_object_marking_in_romanian