Alternation between two overt markers on direct objects

[Matti Miestamo]

Hi Giorgio!

Two years ago, I posted a query about these case changes (and similar phenomena) wrt negation. The discussion following that query may be interesting to you, see the list archives at <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=LINGTYP>, October and November 2009. I also have a submitted ms. where I discuss the interaction between negation and case marking (and related phenomena, focusing on partitive marking under negation). If you're interested, I can send it to you off list.

Best,
Matti

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30 nov 2011 kl. 17.29 skrev Giorgio Iemmolo:

> Dear all, 
> 
> I am writing to inquire whether anyone on this list is aware of languages where direct objects exhibit an alternation between two (or more) overt case markers.
> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> Thank you very much in advance,
> 
> Giorgio Iemmolo
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