<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What do we know, cross-linguistically,
about “excessive/redundant” use of reflexive pronouns with verbs of leaving
(transitives) and remaining (intransitives)? Is there an accepted explanation
of this feature?</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A well-known example is Spanish: </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">dejarse atrás “to leave (for oneself)
behind”:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">echando de menos todo lo que <span style="background:fuchsia">me</span> dejé atrás “missing everything I left
behind (<span style="background:fuchsia">for myself</span>)”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Le conté cómo la vida de mi madre se consumía y cómo
me arrastraba a su combustión... cómo salí de aquel infierno y todo lo que <span style="background:fuchsia">me</span> dejé atrás </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I told him how my mother’s life was consuming itself
and how it dragged me into her combustion... how I escaped from that hell and
all that I left behind (<span style="background:fuchsia">for
myself</span>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">quedarse </span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">atrás</span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“to stay behind (for oneself): </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">El sentimiento de </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“</span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:fuchsia">me</span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> quedo atrás en la vida</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">”</span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> es una experiencia relativamente común en la etapa final de la juventud</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In Spanish, it looks like one can
equally well say “</span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">todo lo que dejé atrás</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">” and “</span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">quedo atrás en la vida</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">”,
without the reflexive marker. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What prompts its appearance?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you very much,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sergey</span></p></div>