%0 Journal Article
%A Haspelmath, Martin
%+ Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
%T Differential place marking and differential object marking : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-7C07-7
%R 10.1515/stuf-2019-0013
%F OTHER: shh2405
%7 2019-09-28
%D 2019
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X This paper gives an overview of differential place marking phenomena and formulates a number of universals that seem to be well supported. Differential place marking is a situation in which the coding of locative, allative or ablative roles depends on subclasses of nouns, in particular place names (toponyms), inanimate common nouns and human nouns. When languages show asymmetric coding differences depending on such subclasses, they show shorter (and often zero) coding of place roles with toponyms, and longer (often adpositional rather than affixal) coding of place roles with human nouns. Like differential object marking, differential place marking can be explained by frequency asymmetries, expectations derived from frequencies, and the general preference for efficient coding. I also argue that differential place marking patterns provide an argument against the need to appeal to ambiguity avoidance to explain differential object marking.
%K asymmetric coding; differential coding; efficient coding; frequency; universals
%Z 1 Introduction and overview
2 Place marking: Locative, allative and ablative marking
3 Zero marking of place names vs. overt marking of common nouns
4 Special marking of human landmarks
5 Zero (or short) marking of topo-nouns
6 The evidence from Stolz et al. (2014)
7 Explaining the generalizations
8 Ambiguity avoidance versus expectation management
9 Conclusion
%J Language Typology and Universals
%O Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung STUF
%V 72
%N 3
%& 313
%P 313 - 334
%I De Gruyter Akademie
%C Berlin
%@ 2196-7148