Chapter On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery

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 lang...

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Main Author: Belletti, Adriana (auth)
Other Authors: Petrosino, Roberto (Editor), Cerrone, Pietro (Editor), van der Hulst, Harry (Editor)
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Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2018
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