A further argument for a syncretic analysis of DOM and dative in Spanish

This paper offers an argument to analyse the Spanish form /a/ as a syncretic case marker for accusative differential object marking (dom) and dative. The literature on free relative clauses has established that syncretism allows the repair of feature mismatches arising from contradictory selectional...

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Published in:	Topics in Linguistics
Main Author:	Pérez Carlos Muñoz
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra 2020-06-01
Subjects:	free relatives clitic left dislocation differential object marking dative syncretism spanish
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2020-0004