<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Hi Christian,</font><div><font size="4">This sounds similar to a construction found in some Old Chinese texts. There were actually two versions, where one might talk about a fronted patient that then is followed by what we usually just call a resumptive pronoun, and where there has clearly been no so-called movement, but again the full reference is followed by a resumptive pronoun. This is understood to be a sort of contrastive focus. e.g.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">知之為知之，不知為不知，是知也 《為政》17</font></div><div><font size="4">zhī zhī wéi zhī zhī, bù zhī wéi bù zhī, shì zhì yě</font></div><div><font size="4">know this be know this not know be not know THIS knowledge ASSERTIVE PARTICLE</font></div><div><font size="4">(rough translation): knowing you know this and knowing you don't know this, THIS is knowledge. (Confucian Analects, Wei Zheng, line 17)</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">余必臣是助 《昭公二十二年》</font></div><div><font size="4">yú bì chén shì zhù</font></div><div><font size="4">1sg must minister THIS help</font></div><div><font size="4">I will certainly help my ministers/subjects. (Zuo Zhuan, Zhao Gong year 22, line 2)</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">All the best,</font></div><div><font size="4">Randy</font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana">——</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana">Professor Randy J. LaPolla（罗仁地), PhD FAHA </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana">Center for Language Sciences</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana">Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana">Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana">A302, Muduo Building, #18 Jinfeng Road, Zhuhai City, China</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana"></font><div class="gmail-ApplePlainTextBody" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana"><font size="1">邮编：519000<br>广东省珠海市唐家湾镇金凤路18号木铎楼A302<br>北京师范大学珠海校区<br>人文和社会科学高等研究院<br>语言科学研究中心 </font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 10:59 PM Christian Lehmann <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
while working on Cabecar grammar, I have been struggling with a
phenomenon which I do not recall having seen treated in the
literature and which I have dubbed instant resumption. It is a kind
of intraclausal anaphora involving an NP as antecedent and a
demonstrative pronoun as anaphor. A variant of this has been
well-known as left-dislocation. In Cabecar, however, the
construction has these properties:<br>
<ul>
<li>It does not necessarily involve left-dislocation. The
antecedent NP may be anywhere inside the clause, even at its
end.</li>
<li>The resumptive pronoun (the medial demonstrative, glossed
D.MED below) may, in principle, come later in the clause.
However, in 96% of the cases, it follows the antecedent
immediately. It does this even at the end of the clause. I
therefore assume that, at the structural level, this is (putting
it in grammaticalizational terms) no longer anaphora, but
apposition.</li>
<li>The phenomenon is completely independent of the internal
constituency of the antecedent; this may be a nominalized
clause, a determined NP or even a pronoun. And it is independent
of the syntactic function of the resumptive - or the entire
appositional NP - in its clause; it may be just any function
available to an NP.</li>
<li>Instant resumption is always optional, although preferred in
many cases.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Here are two examples; the antecedent is bracketed:<br>
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E1. Rogelio jé m-á̱=ká̱=ju̱
bulía.<br>
[Rogelio] D.MED go-PROG=ASC=AM tomorrow<br>
‘Rogelio(, he) will climb tomorrow.’<br>
E2. jé rä sä yu-ä kië́
Pedro jé= i̠a̠.<br>
D.MED COP [<a href="http://1.PL" target="_blank">1.PL</a> form-NR name Peter] D.MED=DAT<br>
‘that is for the professor named Peter.’<br>
<br>
Unless you have seen this kind of construction before, you may think
that my analysis is mistaken and the demonstrative is simply a
postnominal determiner. Be assured that it is not. The language has
prenominal determiners. And as said before, there are 4% of distant
resumption which would not be possible if the thing were a
determiner.<br>
<br>
Certain phenomena I have seen in other languages come to mind:<br>
<ul>
<li>In Dagbani, the relative clause (described by Wilson 1963 and
1975) is followed by a particle <i>la</i> which Wilson does not
categorize but which looks like a demonstrative.</li>
<li>In Wappo, the relative clause (described by Li & Thompson
1978) is followed by a demonstrative <i>ce</i>, which at that
time I thought was a postnominal determiner.</li>
<li>In some Australian language which I do not recall, the case
suffixes on nouns look like pronouns provided with the same case
suffixes. Compare with this E2 above.</li>
</ul>
Here are my questions to you:<br>
<ul>
<li>Have you seen instant resumption in other languages?</li>
<li>Is there an established concept and term for the phenomenon
which I have overlooked?</li>
<li>Is it a grammaticalized form of left-dislocation, as it
appears to me, or is there some other base for it?</li>
<li>How should we conceive its function at the grammaticalized
stage? To me, it seems that it no longer has any cognitive or
communicative function, but a mere structural function (if I may
say so), viz. identifying a nominal expression as such by
summing it up, and thus demarcating it against the rest of the
clause at least in configurations as E1.<br>
</li>
</ul>
I would be grateful for any help.<br>
Best, Christian<br>
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