Introduction
Differential Object Marking and its acquisition in different languages
and contexts
Alexandru Mardale | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
de Paris – Laboratoire SeDyL UMR8202 CNRS
This volume brings together a selection of papers that were
presented at the international workshop on the acquisition of Differential
Object Marking (DOM) organized by Alexandru Mardale (INaLCO, SeDyL) in Paris
on December 10, 2016 as part of the Unity and diversity in
Differential Object Marking research project funded by the
Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques of the CNRS. Other papers
in the volume were comissioned by Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign) as part of her collaborative research projects on DOM in
language acquisition. Taking a crosslinguistic perspective, the present
volume includes 13 chapters on the monolingual and bilingual acquisition of
DOM in a number of typologically unrelated languages (Basque, Estonian,
Hindi, Korean, Persian, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish), from different
theoretical and acquisition perspectives, and using different methodologies.
The new and original empirical data from diverse acquisition situations
presented in this collection contribute to advance our understanding of the
factors that characterize DOM in diverse languages and to test and evaluate
the explanatory power of available theoretical analyses of DOM and of
language acquisition.
Article outline
- 1.Differential Object Marking at a glance
- 2.The acquisition of Differential Object Marking
- 3.Conclusions and further directions
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