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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As Jeroen Wiedenhof is raising the issue of
personal pronouns, I would like to add a query conderning personal pronouns of
my own. At the moment Magda Devos and I are studying a phenomenon of
pronoun substitution in West Flemish (a Dutch dialect). As a result of a recent
evolution (in the last decades), some varieties of this dialect (and
increasingly more of them) tend to substitute the objective form following
a preposition by a subject form. This results in sentences
like:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hij heeft iets
tegen <STRONG>ikke</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>He holds sth against
<STRONG>I</STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(normally: Hij heeft iets <STRONG>mij
</STRONG>- against <STRONG>me</STRONG>)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ik klappe nie meer tegen
<STRONG>gij</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>I don't talk to <STRONG>you
</STRONG>anymore</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(normally: <FONT face=Arial size=2>Ik klappe nie
meer tegen <STRONG>u</STRONG> - in English this opposition is neutralized in one
'you'-form)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ze zijn kwaad op
<STRONG>wijder</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>They are mad at
<STRONG>we</STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(normally: <FONT face=Arial size=2>Ze zijn kwaad op
<STRONG>ons </STRONG>- at <STRONG>us</STRONG>)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1 Are there among you who know of other languages
or dialects exhibiting this kind of behaviour (there are some dialects in S-W
England, according to Katie Wales <SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">1996.
<I>Personal pronouns in present-day English</I>. Cambridge:
CUPress.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: NL; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">2
Among the factors that seem to be involved, there is stress (case contrast is
replaced by stress contrast), but this most probably is not the whole
story. Does anyone know of other accounts for this phenomenon in
relevant literature?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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Gent</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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