A further argument for a syncretic analysis of DOM and dative in Spanish

This paper offers an argument to analyse the Spanish form /a/ as a syncretic case marker for accusative differential object marking (dom) and dative. The literature on free relative clauses has established that syncretism allows the repair of feature mismatches arising from contradictory selectional...

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Main Author: Pérez Carlos Muñoz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra 2020-06-01
Series:Topics in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2020-0004