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Re: Italian Particles

From:DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...>
Date:Friday, April 21, 2000, 20:14
From: "Christophe Grandsire"

> >Wasn't there discussion quite a while back that French was heading in
this
> >direction with the increased use of the independent pronouns in sentences > >like:
> >Moi, je pense. > >Toi, tu penses. > >Lui, il pense. > >Elle, elle pense. > >Nous, nous pensons. > >Vous, vous pensez. > >Eux, ils pensent. > >Elles, elles pensent.
> >Les chaises, elles sont très belles. > >Le fromage, il est délicieux. > >Ma mère, elle pense que...
> Exactly! I think within a century or so, Spoken French will use particles > as well, coming from the person prefixes (they really are prefixes you > know, even if most of them look exactly like the independent pronouns,
it's
> not the case of 'je' and 'tu' which can be used only as subject prefixes - > the independent forms are 'moi' and 'toi' as you showed it - and they have > no independent stress).
That should make pronominal verbs interesting. Nous nous nous rasons. Nous nous nous sommes rasés?! Vous vous vous rasez. :) Kou