摘要：Western Armenian (WA) has a system of differential object marking (DOM) where certain objectnominals appear optionally, and often preferably, in the dative instead of the regular accusative(Khanjian 2013:32ff). This marking preference extends primarily to animate definite objects一i.e., those types of objects for which marking is obligatory in many better-studied DOM systems(e.g. Spanish, Farsi). The examples below illustrate.
