<div dir="ltr">Dear Farhad,<div><br></div><div>I am not sure the function or RA here is to mark the goal argument per se (hence no double marking). RA can occur on a variety of grammatical functions, and many people have argued that its function is to mark specificity/topicality/identifiability or the like.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Irina</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Prof. Irina Nikolaeva, FBA, MAE</p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31522.php" target="_blank">https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31522.php<br></a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 14:52, Farhad Moezzipour <<a href="mailto:fmp59i@gmail.com">fmp59i@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Is anyone aware of a language where the goal in a motion event is doubly marked? This happens in colloquial Persian:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) <i>Ta xune=ro tu 20 </i>dæqiqe<i> dæv-id-æm</i>.</div><div> until house=POSP in 20 minute run-PST-1SG</div><div> 'I ran the distance to the house in 20 minutes.' </div><div><br></div><div>The goal is marked once by the preposition and once with the postposition RA, which is basically an object maker in Modern Persian. The given example is also possible without RA, as in (2). </div><div><br></div><div>(2) <i>Ta xune 20 </i>dæqiqe<i> dæv-id-æm</i>.</div><div> until house 20 minute run-PST-1SG </div><div> 'I ran toward the house for 20 minutes.' </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Farhad</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br><div> </div></div></div>
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