<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Although very marginal, I would like to point out an example of DOM in Italian.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It is well known that in the southern varieties, DOM is very frequent in the colloquial language, but the phenomenon I am describing here can be observed with speakers of the standard variety which should be immune to it.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Consider verbs such as <i>colpire</i> 'strike', <i>sorprendere</i> 'surprise' and the like. They are transitive, as one can observe in:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">- <i>La notizia colpì me più di ogni altro</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> 'the news struck me more than anyone else'</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">With clitic climbing, you have:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">- <i>La notizia mi colpì molto</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> 'the news struck me a lot'.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The different form (<i>me</i>/<i>mi</i>) owns to the contrast between a strong pronoun (<i>me</i>) and the corresponding clitic. Admittedly, <i>mi</i> is ambiguous, because it can express both a direct object and a dative argument. In the sentence above, at any rate, <i>mi</i> clearly expresses a direct object.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Several Standard Italian speakers (not me, for what it matters) nowadays say sentences such as:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">- <i>A me colpisce / sorprende che</i> ...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> to me (it) strikes / surprises that ...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">using a DOM strategy. It is possible that the formal ambiguity of <i>mi</i> has had a role in the development of this construction, but this should not detract from the fact that <i>colpire</i> and <i>sorprendere </i>are<i> </i>transitive verbs.<i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Pier Marco<i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i><br></i></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mer 6 nov 2024 alle ore 21:04 Inbal Mayo via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dear colleagues,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request your assistance with a survey I am conducting as part of my MA thesis on languages that have acquired Differential Object Marking (DOM) due to language contact.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">So far, I have identified a few well-attested cases, for example in the Tibeto-Burman language family, particularly the Kiranti languages (Ebert 2003; Bickel 2003, etc.), as well as a few other cases such as Afrikaans (den Besten 2000), Basque (Rodríguez-Ordóñez 2020), and Paraguayan Guaraní (Bittar 2023). However, I have also encountered some cases that are less clear. For instance, in the Semitic language family (specifically Maltese (Döhla 2016)) DOM has been proposed as a contact-induced feature, though this relies on the assumption that the language’s ancestors did not originally have DOM. From what I understand, this assumption is under some contention.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Additional problematic cases are found in the Indo-Iranian languages. For example, DOM systems in Hindi and Persian are hypothesized to be due to language contact (Montaut 2018 and Paul 2018 respectively), but according to other sources DOM is extremely widespread in Indo-Aryan languages (Schikowski 2013, which focuses on Nepali and relies on additional descriptions of Indo-Aryan languages), which would make it is less likely that this feature is contact-induced.</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
</span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I would greatly appreciate any additional references or insights that could shed light on these case studies, as well as information on other languages where DOM is theorized to have developed due to language contact.</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
</span><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Thank you very much for your time!<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Best regards,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Inbal Mayo</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></span><br></div>
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