@article{Andriani_2016, title={Semantic and Syntactic Properties of the Prepositional Accusative in Barese}, volume={34}, url={https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/24597}, abstractNote={This article explores the semantic and syntactic properties of the prepositional accusative in the dialect of Bari. Through a comparison with the semantic and syntactic features identified by Torrego (1998) for the Spanish prepositional accusative, we show that Barese a-marked Direct Objects must be specified for [±human] and [±specific] for the prepositional accusative to be licensed. Its structural position is then tested with respect to the position of verb and adverbs, following the comparative analysis of Romance by Ledgeway & Lombardi (2005). These tests reveal that the Barese prepositional accusative occupies a v-VP-internal position, and that “specificity” is chiefly responsible for the a-marking on the Direct Object as a consequence of its raising to the external specifier of vP.}, number={2}, journal={Linguistica Atlantica}, author={Andriani, Luigi}, year={2016}, month={May} }