Furthermore, in the particular case of the object in (5), the specificity of the Undergoer argument is morphosyntactically overt due to a possessive pronoun that refers back to the subject and sa- marking is clearly disfavored, as shown in (6).Latrouite, Anja...
A formal approach to the typology of differential object marking (DOM) is developed within the framework of Optimality Theory. The functional/typological literature has established that variation in DOM is structured by the dimensions of animacy and definiteness, with degree of prominence on these dime...