Linguistic Inquiry | 2019
Asymmetric DOM in Coordination: A Problem for Movement-Based Approaches
Abstract
Differential Object Marking (DOM) is a common crosslinguistic phenomenon whereby overt case-marking on objects surfaces only on a subset of objects, namely, those high in definiteness, specificity, and/or animacy (Comrie 1979, Croft 1988, Bossong 1991, Enç 1991, Aissen 2003, de Swart 2007, i.a.). In Spanish, for example, simplifying somewhat, overt case-marking of objects (bolded throughout the paper) is required when the object is specific/animate and banned when the object is nonspecific or inanimate (Rodríguez-Mondoñedo 2007; glosses adapted):