Differential Subject Marking in Arawakan Languages: Distribution and Origins

Case Marking and Subject Extraction in Danish1

Double subject marking in L2 Montreal French

Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Spanish

In this study we investigate the impact of affectedness on the diachronic development of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Spanish. DOM in Spanish synchronically depends on (i) the referential features of the direct object, such as animacy and referentiality, and (ii) the semantics of the verb. Several studies have also shown that the diachronic development of DOM proceeds along the Animacy ...

Modern Origins, Language and Languages

Mitochondrial and nuclear genetic variation in humans is much lower than in extant apes (Gagneux 1999; Fischer et al. 2006). The effective population size of extant humans is slightly >10,000. In contrast, the effective population size of the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans is estimated at four to seven times larger (Wall, 2003). Comparable estimates for the effective population size ...

Animacy and asymmetries in differential case marking

The present paper presents a cross-linguistic overview of animacy effects in (differential) case marking, and provides an explanation for the attested patterns in terms of two competing case marking strategies. It is argued that the complexity of animacy effects in differential case marking is due to the fact that some of these patterns result from the differentiating function of case marking, ...