Preposition doubling

[Michael Yadroff]

Dear SEELANGers,

In Colloquial Russian (as well as in Old/Middle Russian and Russian Dialects),
there is a phenomenon of preposition doubling (tripling, etc.) in definite
NPs with a head N moved to a front of the NP and modifier(s) left behind,
like in the following Russian examples:

(i)     Voshel on _v_ dom _v_ tot _v_ zakoldovannyj (Fairy tale narration)
        entered he into house into that into haunted
        'He entered that haunted house'

(ii)    Rasskazhi-ka popodrobnee _o_ brate _o_ svoem. (Coll. Rus.)
        tell in more detail about brother about self
        'Tell me about your brother in more detail'

I'm wondering (I'm really wondering) if there is a similar phenomenon in other
Slavic languages. I would really appreciate any data about this phenomenon
from as many Slavic languages as possible.

BTW, first I wanted to start with "In the ES languages ..." I've read the
Belorussian dialects has this feature. What about Colloquial Belorussian?
And how about Colloquial Ukrainian?

Best,
Misha

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Michael Yadroff
Linguistics Department and Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Memorial Hall 322           Ballantine Hall 502
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
myadroff at indiana.edu
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