Preposition doubling

[Ursula Doleschal]

I remember that this phenomenon is quite common typologically speaking, as well as the doubling of the article (as in Ancient Greek) , unfortunately I cannot come up with any relevant literature at the moment.

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Von: Michael Yadroff <myadroff at indiana.edu>
An: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Datum: Mittwoch, 10. März 1999 00:22
Betreff: Preposition doubling


    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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