Éléments d'analyse du marquage différentiel de l'objet dans les langues romanes

摘要

This article describes Differential Object Marking (DOM) in three Romance languages: Romanian, Spanish and Sardinian. Our goal is to examine the variation regarding this phenomenon in these three languages. Following Laca (1995), Dobrovie-Sorin (1997, 2002), Bleam (2004, 2005), Cornilescu & Dobrovie-Sorin (2007), we shall take a closer look to a generalization which may explain its occurrence. This generalization correlates DOM with the denotation of the noun and it is exclusively negative. More precisely, we will show that in Romance DOM is excluded with direct objects denoting properties.