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Abstract

The parallel data discussed in this article suggest that in Guaraní languages differential objects seem far from being exclusively highlighted in morphology. Instead, the Guaraní systems exhibit a differential treatment of certain direct objects within narrow syntax. Focusing on [+animate] direct objects, I supply evidence that [+] direct objects scramble out of their base position into a higher, P-internal, projection, namely αP (following López 2012). This is derived including data from simple transitive, ditransitive, and applicative constructions as well as from object conjunction. The short scrambling within P is followed by further direct object dislocation into a higher functional domain, an operation described in literature as triggered by φ-feature under T° and targeting a specifier in an expanded functional domain (Freitas 2011b). DOs that move out of their base position may be marked with the overt case marker, homophonous with case. The homophony between and is conceived as morphological opacity in the Guaraní case. Syntactically, however, [+] DOs pattern together with their zero-marked counterparts, rather than with indirect objects.

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Differential object marking and object scrambling in the Guaraní language cluster
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Keyword(s): differential object marking; direct/inverse alignment; Guaraní language cluster; object scrambling; person hierarchy

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