TY - JOUR

T1 - Animacy and case in the acquisition of differential object marking in Croatian and Russian

AU - Hrz ica, G.

AU - Palmovic, M.

AU - Kovac evic, M.

AU - Voeikova, M. D.

AU - Ivanova, K.A.

AU - Galkina, E.V.

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Different inflectional endings of masculine animate and inanimate nouns in the accusative are common to Croatian and Russian and constitute Differential Object Marking (henceforth DOM) in these two languages. Additionally, Russian nouns of all genders get DOM in the plural, making this feature even more consistent. In this paper we investigate the acquisition of DOM by Russian and Croatian children. Our longitudinal data reveal that in both languages DOM is acquired early. However, the acquisition route is different. While Croatian children erroneously extend the use of the Acc=Gen to inanimate forms, Russian children start with erroneously 0-marked animate forms and switch to erroneously overmarked (Acc=Gen) forms much later.

AB - Different inflectional endings of masculine animate and inanimate nouns in the accusative are common to Croatian and Russian and constitute Differential Object Marking (henceforth DOM) in these two languages. Additionally, Russian nouns of all genders get DOM in the plural, making this feature even more consistent. In this paper we investigate the acquisition of DOM by Russian and Croatian children. Our longitudinal data reveal that in both languages DOM is acquired early. However, the acquisition route is different. While Croatian children erroneously extend the use of the Acc=Gen to inanimate forms, Russian children start with erroneously 0-marked animate forms and switch to erroneously overmarked (Acc=Gen) forms much later.

KW - differential object marking

KW - animacy

KW - Croatian

KW - Russian.

M3 - Article

VL - LX

SP - 351

EP - 368

JO - Revue Roumaine de Linguistique

JF - Revue Roumaine de Linguistique

SN - 0035-3957

IS - 4

ER -