This paper focuses on the interaction between Spanish DOM, on the one hand, and Basque and Catalan DOM on the other. We thus address the contact situation attested among these languages from a micro-comparative perspective and we base on both diachronic as well as synchronic data. In Basque the… read more
In this paper we provide a comprehensive picture of differential object marking in Catalan, focusing on both the empirical facts and their theoretical contribution. We support some important conclusions. First, Catalan differential object marking is quite a robust and widespread phenomenon,… read more
In this chapter we present the ASinEs project (Atlas Sintáctico del Español, http://www.asines.org ), an unprecedented tool for the study of dialectal variation in the syntax of Spanish. After an introductory presentation (Section 1), we set the ASinEs in the context of the study of dialectal… read more
This paper focuses on some problematic aspects of the diachrony of differential object marking in Old Catalan and Old Romanian (11th to 17th centuries). Corpus data from both languages reveal two unexpected facts: (i) there is a prominence of 3rd person to the exclusion of 1st and 2nd person,… read more
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on a particular behavior displayed by verbs of inherently directed motion, the availability of a causative transitive alternate, and how this phenomenon interacts with the presence of clitic se in the intransitive variant. Data from Catalan, Aragonese and… read more
Grammaticalization across Romance languages and the pace of language change. The position of Catalan. In several works on grammaticalization, one of the authors of this paper has established a grammaticalization cline which posits three major Romance languages: French at one extreme, Spanish… read more
This paper accounts for dative/accusative alternations in several Romance languages with verbs with one complement of person, such as Catalan telefonar [DAT a la Roser]/telefonar [ACC la Roser] ‘to phone Roser’. Although the paper focuses on Catalan and Spanish, reference is also made to Italian… read more
The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence for a new view on Romance double object constructions (DOC). Against the general trend, we do not try to prove the existence of Romance DOC by comparing it to the well-known English-like dative alternation. Instead, we propose a new approach to… read more