Re: [tied] Re: Marked nominative

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 21979
Date: 2003-05-17

At 3:22:07 PM on Friday, May 16, 2003, aquila_grande wrote:

> To a certain extend, the object is marked in Italian.

> If you chose to begin a sentence with an object, then the
> object is marked by referencing it with an enclitic
> personal pronoun attached to the werb.

> Vedo la macchina. La macchina la vedo. = I see the car.

I believe that Spanish does something similar: El coche, lo
compró Elena. But I'd classify this as a syntactic device.

Brian