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

[Svetlana G McCoy]

Quoting Henry Kucera <Henry_Kucera at BROWN.EDU>:

> >
> >> >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

Also, in many non-Slavic languages: Irish, Rumanian, French (colloquial French,
especially Pied Noir French and Quebec French), Italian, Catalan,
Haitian, Arabic... (this is only a list of languages that have been discussed in
the literature as having a similar phenomenon)

the use of pronoun doubling in these languages may be motivated by different
purposes (morphological agreement, discourse functions, etc.) but i am not aware
of any crosslinguistic studies. any leads in that direction?

Sveta McCoy

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