Published May 28, 1979 | Version v1

Definite and animate direct objects: A natural class

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  • 1. Univesity of Cambridge

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This paper shows that differential object marking may not only be limited to definite or animate objects, but also to objects that have a mixture of animacy nd definiteness properties. It claims that this can be attributed to the discriminatory role of case-marking.

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