The present paper explores Differential Object Marking in a variety of Asturian (Western Iberian Romance) spoken in western Asturias (northwestern Spain). This ancestral form of speech stands out from Central Asturian and especially from Standard Spanish. For a number of reasons, ranging from profound changes in pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology and information structure to slight but very relevant effects on syntax. The main goal of this study is to examine the special marking of direct objects in order to find out what triggers the distribution of Differential Object Marking in this variety. To this aim, this paper will examine, from a variationist perspective, the influence of a number of semantic and discourse-pragmatic parameters on the marking of direct objects in this Western Asturian language as well as in Standard Spanish and Central Asturian (which is generally considered the normative variety of Asturian). The results obtained from this comparison will allow us to outline the differences between these three varieties in terms of object marking, shedding more light on the origin and function of Differential Object Marking in Spanish.

本文探讨了在阿斯图里亚斯西部（西班牙西北部）所说的各种阿斯图里亚斯语（西伊比利亚浪漫史）中的差异对象标记。这种祖先的演讲形式在阿斯图里亚斯语中尤为突出，尤其是在标准西班牙语中。由于多种原因，从发音，词汇，形态和信息结构的深刻变化到对语法的轻微但非常相关的影响。这项研究的主要目的是检查直接物体的特殊标记，以找出是什么触发了差异物体标记在该品种中的分布。为此，本文将从变异主义的角度考察 许多语义和语用语用参数对这种西方阿斯图里亚斯语言以及标准西班牙语和中阿斯图里亚斯语（通常被认为是阿斯图里亚斯语的规范变体）中直接对象标记的影响。从比较中获得的结果将使我们能够在对象标记方面概述这三个变体之间的差异，从而更多地说明西班牙语中差异对象标记的起源和功能。