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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In the Western Gbe languages, Ewe and Gen, the free or independent plural pronouns can take the plural clitic =wó. This plural marker may have grammaticalized from the 3PL pronoun wó-.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Ponrawee Prasertsom <ponrawee.pra@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 15 November 2019 at 17:02<br>
<b>To: </b>"lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] Plural markers on (already) plural pronouns</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been looking at a number of Tai languages and found that in some of these languages, plural pronouns can optionally take a plural marker normally used on common nouns. For instance, in Shan (Southwestern Tai), the third person plural
pronoun <i>khau</i> can optionally take the plural marker <i>cɯ(nai)</i>, viz. <i>
khau cɯ(nai)--</i>at least according to Cushing 1871.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Assuming this analysis is correct (if it's not please kindly inform me), I'm wondering how rare this is for pronouns? A quick lookup revealed that a similar phenomenon called "double plural marking" is found in some languages, but seems
to be restricted to common nouns only. Does anyone know of any other instances like this for pronouns in other languages?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sources: Cushing, Josiah Nelson. Grammar of the Shan Language. Rangoon: American Mission Press, 1871.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Ponrawee Prasertsom</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Student<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Department of Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt">Faculty of Arts, </span>Chulalongkorn University<o:p></o:p></p>
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