<div dir="auto">dear ponrawee<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">you may want to look at burmese, the majpr contact language of shan, where the general nominal plural marker twe/dwe can be added to pronouns that already have the pronominal/associative plural marker tó/dó. there seems to be no difference in meaning with and without the added plural marker.</div><div dir="auto">best</div><div dir="auto">mathias</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 17:02 Ponrawee Prasertsom <<a href="mailto:ponrawee.pra@gmail.com">ponrawee.pra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><div><br></div><div>Sources: Cushing, Josiah Nelson. Grammar of the Shan Language. Rangoon: American Mission Press, 1871.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Ponrawee Prasertsom</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Graduate Student</div><div>Department of Linguistics</div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Faculty of Arts, </span>Chulalongkorn University</div><div>Bangkok, Thailand</div></div></div></div></div>
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