Preposition doubling (Katerina King ref.)

[EMILY KLENIN]

The article is in Russian Linguistics 13 (1989).185-206. "On preposition
repetition:  a study in the history of syntactic government in Old
Russian". It contains references to important earlier work by Worth,
Zalizniak. EK.

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Emily Klenin
Department of Slavic Languages
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Katerina P. King wrote:

> You do know about Emily Klenin's article on "prep rep"?
>
> Katya King
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Michael Yadroff wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:02:10 -0500
> > From: Michael Yadroff <myadroff at indiana.edu>
> > Reply-To: "SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list"
>      <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
> > To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> > Subject: 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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> > Michael Yadroff
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