In Cappadocian and Pharasiot, the two main members of the inner Asia Minor Greek dialect group, the head nouns of NPs found in certain syntactic positions are marked with the accusative if the relevant NPs are definite and with the nominative if the NPs are indefinite. This differential case marking (DCM) pattern contrasts with all other Modern Greek dialects, in which the accusative is uniformly used in the relevant syntactic positions. After revisiting recent proposals regarding the synchronic status of DCM in Cappadocian and Pharasiot, I show how the two dialects developed this ‘un-Greek’ feature in the model of Turkish, which marks the head nouns of direct object NPs with an accusative suffix only if they take a specific reading leaving non-specific direct object NPs unmarked. I subsequently trace the diachronic trajectory of this contact-induced innovation within the two dialectal systems, seeking to explain why DCM was gradually lost in Cappadocian but preserved in Pharasiot.

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小亚细亚内陆地区区分大小写标记的发展、保存和丧失

在卡帕多西亚语和法拉西奥语这两个内部小亚细亚希腊方言组的主要成员中，在某些句法位置发现的 NP 的中心名词，如果相关 NP 是确定的，则标有宾格，如果相关的 NP 是不定的，则标有主格。这种区分大小写 (DCM) 模式与所有其他现代希腊方言形成对比，在这些方言中，宾格统一用于相关句法位置。在重新审视最近关于 DCM 在卡帕多西亚语和法拉西奥语中的同步状态的提议之后，我展示了这两种方言如何在土耳其语模型中发展出这种“非希腊语”特征，该特征仅在以下情况下才用宾格后缀标记直接宾语 NP 的中心名词他们进行特定的阅读，而不标记非特定的直接对象 NP。