<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 23px; ">Cross-linguistic studies of Differential Object Marking did not fail to refer to the relevant constructions e.g. in Finnish or Russian.</div><br><div><div>On 30 Nov 2011, at 9:29, Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Gideon,<br>
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Giorgio is asking specifically about the alternation between two or
more overt case markers, not about any differential object marking.
While the latter is common, the former seems to be quite rare.<br>
Best,<br>
Maria<br>
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On 2011-11-30 20.15, Gideon Goldenberg wrote:
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<div style="font-size: 27px;">About this phenomenon of
‘differential object marking’ cross-linguistically you may see,
to begin with,</div>
<div style="font-size: 27px;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_object_marking">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_object_marking</a></div>
<div style="font-size: 27px;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.blutner.de/Optimal/dat/Aissen_DOM.pdf">http://www.blutner.de/Optimal/dat/Aissen_DOM.pdf</a></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px;">Gideon</span>.<br>
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<div>On 30 Nov 2011, at 6:29, Giorgio Iemmolo wrote:</div>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Dear all,
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<div>I am writing to inquire whether anyone on this list
is aware of languages where direct objects exhibit an
alternation between <u>two (or more) overt</u> case
markers.</div>
<div>Examples of such languages are Finnic languages
(Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, etc.) quite a few
Indo-European languages (Russian, Polish, Ancient
Greek, Vedic, etc.), and a few Polynesian languages
(Samoan, Tongan, etc.), where there is an alternation
i) between accusative and partitive/genitive or ii)
between two overt markers, depending on a variety of
factors, such as event (un)boundedness, polarity,
affectedness, quantification. </div>
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<div>My general impression is that such an alternation
in direct object encoding is fairly rare
cross-linguistically. So if anybody is familiar with
examples of languages where this pattern is found and
is not limited to just a handful of verbs, please let
me know. I would be very grateful. </div>
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<div>Thank you very much in advance,</div>
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<div>Giorgio Iemmolo</div>
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