Re: [tied] Re: Marked nominative

On Fri, 16 May 2003 23:46:54 -0400, "Brian M. Scott"
<BMScott@...> wrote:

>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.

Yes, it's used to highlight, in this case, the object. (Cf. Ayer,
Elena compró el coche, where "yesterday" is pulled into initial
position).

Spanish, unlike the other Romance languages (except Romanian), does
have animate object marking (he visto _a_ Elena, "I've seen E.").

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