[Lingtyp] Plural markers on (already) plural pronouns

[Mathias Jenny]

dear ponrawee

you may want to look at burmese, the majpr contact language of shan, where
the general nominal plural marker twe/dwe can be added to pronouns that
already have the pronominal/associative plural marker tó/dó. there seems to
be no difference in meaning with and without the added plural marker.
best
mathias

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 17:02 Ponrawee Prasertsom <ponrawee.pra at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have been looking at a number of Tai languages and found that in some of
> these languages, plural pronouns can optionally take a plural marker
> normally used on common nouns. For instance, in Shan (Southwestern Tai),
> the third person plural pronoun *khau* can optionally take the plural
> marker *cɯ(nai)*, viz. *khau cɯ(nai)--*at least according to Cushing 1871.
>
> Assuming this analysis is correct (if it's not please kindly inform me),
> I'm wondering how rare this is for pronouns? A quick lookup revealed that a
> similar phenomenon called "double plural marking" is found in some
> languages, but seems to be restricted to common nouns only. Does anyone
> know of any other instances like this for pronouns in other languages?
>
> Sources: Cushing, Josiah Nelson. Grammar of the Shan Language. Rangoon:
> American Mission Press, 1871.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Ponrawee Prasertsom
>
> Graduate Student
> Department of Linguistics
> Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
> Bangkok, Thailand
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