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Object deletion in spoken Italian is primarily governed by contextual accessibility, which is the strongest predictor of object realization in spontaneous discourse. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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The aim is to explore how semantic and discourse factors affect object realization in spoken Italian, particularly in relation to antipassives.

February 27, 2026Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsOpen Access

Object encoding in spoken language data and antipassives

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SBSilvia Ballarè CMCaterina MauriUniversity of Bologna ASAndrea SansòUniversity of Salerno

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This research investigates object deletion and antipassive constructions in Italian, suggesting discourse factors influence realization patterns.

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The aim is to explore how semantic and discourse factors affect object realization in spoken Italian, particularly in relation to antipassives.
Analyzed 1,500 instances of transitive verbs from the KIParla corpus.
Employed conditional inference trees and random forest models alongside mixed-effects logistic regression.
Controlled for lexical variability and assessed factors like contextual accessibility and agent affectedness.
Contextual accessibility is the primary factor influencing object deletion in Italian.
Agent affectedness also plays a role, especially in scenarios emphasizing changes for the agent.
Other predictors do not have independent effects when taking accessibility and lexical differences into account.

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Ballarè et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a134dded1d949a99abe497 https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2785-0943/21768

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This research investigates object deletion and antipassive constructions in Italian, suggesting discourse factors influence realization patterns.

Object encoding in spoken language data and antipassives

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Object encoding in spoken language data and antipassives

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