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What's-his-name's car

"[The man I met yesterday]'s car"


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Stacked clitics in rapid speech:

"He'd've thought that.........."

"They'll've finished by now."

"The boys'll've been playing football."


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(dislocation or) clitic doubling (in French)


Elle, je lrCOaime. (rCLHer, I love [her].rCY)

Lui, je lrCOai vu. (rCLHim, I saw [him].rCY)


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The book offers many reasons to recommend it.



Yes, the last rCLitrCY in rCLThe book offers many reasons to recommend itrCY functions similarly to a French clitic in a doubling construction.

In French, you might say, Le livre offre beaucoup de raisons de le
recommander (rCLThe book offers many reasons to recommend itrCY), where le
is a clitic pronoun doubling the object already implied by rCLthe book.rCY

In both English and French, the pronoun is used for clarity and to avoid ambiguity, even though the referent (rCLthe bookrCY) is already clear from context.

This is a good example of how English sometimes mirrors the clitic
doubling pattern found in French.
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Wed, 28 May 2025 05:08:07 +0000: HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null>
scribeva:

What's-his-name's car

"[The man I met yesterday]'s car"

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[Why all those extra empty lines? Do you not see them yourself, so you
could edit them out?]

I wouldn't think those are correct in English, but I 'm not a native
speaker.

Stacked clitics in rapid speech:

"He'd've thought that.........."

Possible.

"They'll've finished by now."

Not possible. They'll have ...

"The boys'll've been playing football."

Same. Have is ncessary.

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On 28/05/2025 5:08 p.m., HenHanna wrote:

What's-his-name's-a car

-a-a-a-a-a-a "[The man I met yesterday]'s-a-a car"

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-aStacked clitics in rapid speech:

-a-a-a-a-a-a "He'd've thought that.........."

-a-a-a-a-a-a "They'll've finished by now."

-a-a-a-a-a-a "The boys'll've-a-a been-a-a playing football."

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(dislocation or)-a-a-a-a clitic doubling (in French)

-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Elle, je lrCOaime.-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a (rCLHer, I love [her].rCY)

-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Lui, je lrCOai vu.-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a (rCLHim, I saw [him].rCY)

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-aThe book offers many reasons to recommend it.

Yes, the last rCLitrCY in rCLThe book offers many reasons to recommend itrCY functions similarly to a French clitic in a doubling construction.

In French, you might say, Le livre offre beaucoup de raisons de le recommander (rCLThe book offers many reasons to recommend itrCY), where le
is a clitic pronoun doubling the object already implied by rCLthe book.rCY

In both English and French, the pronoun is used for clarity and to avoid ambiguity, even though the referent (rCLthe bookrCY) is already clear from context.

This is a good example of how English sometimes mirrors the clitic
doubling pattern found in French.

No, neither the English nor the French is an example of clitic doubling.
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Le 28/05/2025 |a 06:08, HenHanna a |-crit :

The book offers many reasons to recommend it.

I think dogs would bark at that sentence as it halted by them.

There are many reasons to recommend the book.

The book itself suggests many reasons to recommend it.

The 'it' is required for the sentence to make sense.

Yes, the last rCLitrCY in rCLThe book offers many reasons to recommend itrCY functions similarly to a French clitic in a doubling construction.

In French, you might say, Le livre offre beaucoup de raisons de le recommander (rCLThe book offers many reasons to recommend itrCY), where le
is a clitic pronoun doubling the object already implied by rCLthe book.rCY

I don't think I'd say that in French, either.

In both English and French, the pronoun is used for clarity and to avoid ambiguity, even though the referent (rCLthe bookrCY) is already clear from context.

This is a good example of how English sometimes mirrors the clitic
doubling pattern found in French.

Sans creuser davantage (|oa ne vaut pas la peine, et j'ai d'autres chats
|a fouetter), j'ai l'impression que c'est du n'importe quoi.

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