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B04 - Interaction of nominal and verbal features for Differential Object Marking

Building on the results of phase I, phase II investigates Differential Object Marking (DOM) as the result of a complex interaction between nominal and verbal prominence features. Focusing on Spanish and Turkish, one of the major challenges is to understand why DOM is determined by two rather contrary verbal prominence features, i.e. agentivity and affectedness. Moreover, the project aims at analyzing DOM in contexts with three (or more) arguments, and at exploring the impact of DOM on discourse structure.

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Team

Prof. Dr. Marco García García

Prof. Dr. Marco García García

Principal Investigator B04

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.310
E-Mail: marco.garcia(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4821
Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Principal Investigator B04 und C04

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.116
E-Mail: klaus.vonheusinger(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4884
Dr. Javier Caro Reina

Dr. Javier Caro Reina

Associated Postdoc B04

Office: Philosophikum, Room 2.310
E-Mail: jcarorei(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-7087
Tiago Augusto Duarte

Tiago Augusto Duarte

Doctoral student B04

Office: Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.04
E-Mail: tiago.duarte(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89903
Haydar Batuhan Yıldız

Haydar Batuhan Yıldız

Doctoral student B04

Office: Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.04
E-Mail: haydar.batuhan.yildiz(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89903
Moritz Banse

Moritz Banse

Student assistant B04

Office: Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.12
E-Mail: moritz.banse(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89903
Sümeyye Uluer

Sümeyye Uluer

Student assistant B04

Office: Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.12
E-Mail: suluer1(at) uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89903
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Publications

To appear

  • García García, Marco & Javier Caro Reina. To appear. Differential Object Marking. In Matthias Heinz, Marc-Olivier Hinzelin & Lorenzo Filipponio (eds.), Manual of Classification and Typology of the Romance Languages. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • von Heusinger, Klaus, Marco García García & Georg Kaiser. To appear. Differential Object Marking and (Non-)Specificity in Spanish – Some Empirical Evidence for Leonetti’s Generalization. In Ignacio Bosque Muñoz, Silvia Gumiel Molina & Cristina Sánchez López (eds.), Homenaje a Manuel Leonetti.

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

  • Caro Reina, Javier. 2020. Differential object marking with proper names in Romance languages. In Luise Kempf, Damaris Nübling & Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), Linguistik der Eigennamen, 225-258. Berlin: de Gruyter. pdf
  • Özge, Umut & Klaus von Heusinger. 2020. Case marking and forward and backward discourse function. In Deniz Zeyrek & Umut Özge (eds.), Discourse meaning: The view from Turkish, 81-102. Berlin: de Gruyter. pdf

2019

2018

2017

  • von Heusinger, Klaus & Jaklin Kornfilt. 2017. Partitivity and case marking in Turkish and related languages. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 2(1). 1-40. pdf
  • von Heusinger, Klaus & Elif Bamyaci. 2017. Specificity effects of Turkish Differential Object Marking. In Leyla Zidani-Eroglu, Matthew Ciscel & Elena Koulidobrova (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 12), 309-319. Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. pdf

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