"A" with Spanish Direct Object

Abstract

1. Use of a preposition with some, but not all direct objects is a peculiarity of the three Peninsular languages and of distant Rumanian. From France and Italy only scattered examples have been reported. Rumanian uses pe or pre, from Latin per, with modern meaning on, onto. The preposition seems to serve no useful purpose and is not a device for avoiding ambiguity, though it may facilitate exceptional wordorder.

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