Formal Approaches to DPs in Old Romanian, Section The Internal Structure of the DP, p. 200
ISBN:
978-90-04-28771-6
Editors:
Virginia Hill
Publisher:
Brill
Place:
Leiden, Boston
Year:
2015
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the application of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Old Romanian such as reflected in DÎ, which is a 16th–17th century collection of documents written directly in Romanian. The investigation is twofold: (i) I identify the contexts that led to the reanalysis of the lexical preposition pe as a DOM element; (ii) I compare the type of DOM-ed DPs in Old Romanian with those of Modern Romanian. The proposal is that pe underwent grammaticalization up to the stage of a Topic marker within DP in Old Romanian, but went further to be a grammatical DOM marker in Modern Romanian. An analysis of the distribution of pe-DP in Old Romanian leads to amendements to the current theoretical generalizations on DOM: we find that DOM is excluded for direct objects having a property reading (type ).
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