Re: Friuli

I was looking around and saw something similar in some
N Italian dialect as well but it was too late last
night to remember exactly where

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> The language itself is interesting --it looks like a
> very early form of French strongly influenced by
> Italian. And anyone with a basic knowledge of French
> plus another Romance language can read it easily.
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> Clitic subject pronouns
> A feature of Friulian are the clitic subject
> pronouns.
> These, known in Friulian as pleonastics, are never
> stressed; they are used together with the verbs to
> express the subject, and can be found before the
> verb
> in declarative sentences or immediately after it in
> case of interrogative or vocative (otative)
> sentences.
> Weak pronouns
> Declaration Question Invocation
> I o -io -io
> You tu -tu -tu
> He al -ial -ial
> She e -ie -ie
> We o -o -o
> You o -o -o
> They -a -o -o
> An example: jo o lavori means I work; jo lavorio?
> means Do I work?, while lavorassio means I wish I
> worked.
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> This feature does not exist in standard French.
> But in dialects, there is a repetition of pronouns
> when it's a question.
> je suis => je suis-ti ?
> tu es => tu es-tu ?
> il est => il est-ti ?
> etc.
> I've read Quebec French does that too.
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> Arnaud
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