Differential Object Marking: Iconicity vs. Economy

By Judith Aissen. 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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The effect of animacy on the choice of referring expression (2011, background): “Many linguistic theories assume that human referents are more accessible than animal referents, and animal referents are more accessible than inanimate referents (Aissen, 2003; Comrie, 1989; Foley & Van Valin, 1985; Silverstein, 1976).”
When Production Precedes Comprehension: An Optimization Approach to the Acquisition of Pronouns (2006, background): “…second constraint, which Burzio (1998) termed REFERENTIAL ECONOMY, actually is a markedness hierarchy (cf. Prince and Smolensky (2004); see Aissen (1999; 2003) for a recent investigation of markedness hierarchies in OT syntax) consisting of three markedness constraints that are ranked…”
Communicative efficiency in language production: Optional case-marking in Japanese (2015, background): “Strikingly, the types of objects for which case-marking is obligatory in DOM systems tend to be the same as those that are more likely to be case-marked in optional casemarking system (Aissen, 2003; Bossong, 1991; Comrie, 1981; de Hoop & Malchukov, 2008; de Swart, 2007, 2011; Malchukov, 2008; Silver”
The noun phrase hierarchy and relational marking: Problems and counterevidence (2005, background): “Aissen (2003) has recently suggested a formal approach to differential object marking within Optimality Theory, and the notion has caught on in this framework. be acted upon.”
Back to basics: Incomplete knowledge of Differential Object Marking in Spanish heritage speakers* (2009, methodology): “To summarize, the distribution and precise application of DOM presents a certain degree of fuzziness within and across languages, according to Aissen (2003), and for this reason she claims that principles underlying DOM are not part of the core grammar.”
Acquisition of article semantics by child and adult L2-English learners* (2009, background): “One example is the Spanish dative preposition a, which marks direct objects which are definite or specific indefinite as well as animate (see Torrego, 1998; Aissen, 2003; Leonetti, 2004).”
Morphological and Abstract Case (2008, methodology): “See footnote 12.”
Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Spanish (2011, background): “…status of the direct object, i.e., the combination of semantic and (discourse) pragmatic features such as animacy, referentiality (definiteness and specificity), and topicality (see Comrie 1975; Bossong 1985; Croft 1988; Aissen 2003; de Hoop and Narasimhan 2005; Butt 2006; de Swart 2007).”
Predicting the dative alternation (2007, background): “From cross-linguistic evidence, number (singular/plural) and person could also have an influence ( Aissen 1999, 2003; Haspelmath 2004) and a bivariate pilot study of the Switchboard corpus showed person to have an influence parallel to grammaticalized person effects on alternative dative structures”
Dominant language transfer in adult second language learners and heritage speakers (2010, background): “On the other hand, the properties of Spanish DOM lie entirely at several interfaces: morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse (see Torrego, 1998; Aissen, 2003; Leonetti, 2004; Laca, 2006).”