Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Turkish and Uzbek

This article explores the relationship between affectedness and Differential Object Marking (DOM) of indefinite direct objects in Turkish and Uzbek. We argue that the distribution of DOM in the two Turkic languages is determined by the direct objects’ specificity and animacy as nominal semantic prop...

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Main Authors: Kizilkaya Semra, Levy-Forsythe Zarina, von Heusinger Klaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-11-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0216