SEELANGS Digest - 13 Apr 2001 to 14 Apr 2001 (#2001-111)

[Henry Kucera]

>
>> >Hello,
>> > >  I wonder if someone on this list will help me
>> > >regarding vernacular Russian.
>> > >  I am currently engaged in editing stenogrammes, recorded
>> > >at a workers' meeting that took place in Petrograd in January 1918,
>> > >and have come across several cases of a redundant pronoun in the
>> > >nominative case:
>> > >     Takoj obshirnyj gromadnyj apparat on dolzhen byl imet'
>> trenija,..
>> > >
>> > >     Eti organizacii, kotoryja rodilis' pri byvshem uzhe otchasti
>> > >       kapitalisticheskom stroe, one v pervuju ochered' postavili
>> > >       svoej zadachej ob"edinenie rachochikh sil, konechno, v
>> > >       bor'be za uluchshenie svoego ekonomicheskago polozhenija.
>> > >

Similar constructions also occur in colloquial Czech (and, I suspect, other
Slavic languages as well).

Henry Kucera

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