SIL lecture: Roberta D’Alessandro

Roberta D’Alessandro (UU), The many natures of DOM

On January 25, Roberta D’Alessandro will deliver the first Syntax Interface Lecture of the year, entitled “The many natures of DOM”.

All invited!

If you are already a member of the SIL Team or affiliated with UU please use this link to participate. If you wish to attend online and are not in the SIL Team, please contact the SIL organizers 

Abstract

This talk will take a syntactic angle on differential object marking (DOM) different from the one usually considered in the Romance and Indo-Aryan literature, showing DOM’s multifaceted nature. While it is true that the primary function of DOM is to mark highly salient, usually animate or definite, objects, it will be argued that DOM has many additional functions, first and foremost that of marking computational domains. It will also be shown that DOM-marking happens in the syntax, and not post-syntactically, as it interferes with primary syntactic processes such as case assignment and argument alignment.