Re: person marking on relative pronouns

René Uittenbogaard wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>This week a francophone friend of mine pointed out that in French, you
>have to say
>
>C'est moi qui _vais_ faire ça.
>It is me who.NOM go.1SG do that.
>
>Note that _vais_ is 1SG.
>The English version has either _is_ (3SG) or _am_ (1SG) following the
>relative pronoun - according to Google:
>
>it is I who is going to - 92 hits
>it is I who am going to - 171 hits.
>
>
Most English-speakers would not use 'it is I', however, and so a large
percentage of those are likely to be non-native speakers.  In colloquial
speech, I'd say 'It's me that's going to'.