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The aim of this paper is to explain the differential object marking (DOM) of inanimate objects in Spanish. Generally, animate objects in Spanish are marked with an A morpheme; however, it is possible for the A-marker to appear also with inanimate objects in specific circumstances. In this article, I defend the idea that a lexical feature of the verb (the presupposition of existence) must be licensed with the organizing node that dominates the specificity features. V inherits this organizing node from v. The analysis will be done using mainly two theoretical tools: the feature geometry of Harley & Ritter (2002) and Chomsky's (2013, 2015) labeling theory., El objetivo de este artículo es explicar el marcado diferencial de objeto (DOM en sus siglas en inglés) de objetos inanimados en español. Generalmente, los objetos directos animados del español son marcados con un morfema A; sin embargo, es posible que la marca A aparezca también con objetos inanimados en circunstancias específicas. En este artículo, defiendo la idea de que un rasgo lexical del verbo (la presuposición de existencia) debe ser licenciado con el nudo organizador que domina los rasgos de especificidad. v heredó este nudo organizador para V. El análisis será hecho usando principalmente dos herramientas teóricas: la geometría de rasgos de Harley y Ritter (2002) y la teoría de rotulación de Chomsky (2013, 2015).

In the present paper the evaluation of a new etymology for the word uirgō ‘virgin’ serves as occasion for an overview of the morphological prefixes by means of which Latin encodes negation on adjectives and nouns. Using the theoretical framework, whose origin ultimately goes back to Aristotle, three varieties of negation will be described: contrariety, contradiction, and privation. As will be shown, all these varieties, and privation in particular, require some theoretical refinement: in some cases, instead of contrariety, some more adequate conceptualizations are preferable such as neutralization or reverse. In this paper the seven prefixes used to encode negation on adjectives and nouns – dē-, dis-, ex-, in-, nĕ-, sē-, uē- – will be described also diachronically, and for each of them their original function will be tentatively identified.