<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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 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 href="http://www.blutner.de/Optimal/dat/Aissen_DOM.pdf">http://www.blutner.de/Optimal/dat/Aissen_DOM.pdf</a></div><a href="http://seas3.elte.hu/delg/publications/even/2006/06ka.pdf" style="font-size: 27px; ">http://seas3.elte.hu/delg/publications/even/2006/06ka.pdf</a><br style="font-size: 27px; ">
<br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px; ">Gideon</span>.<br><div><br><div><div>On 30 Nov 2011, at 6:29, Giorgio Iemmolo wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all, <div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Giorgio Iemmolo</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br><br></span>
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