Clitic doubling

Clitic doubling refers to the use of (mostly object) clitic pronouns together with a coreferential noun phrase, especially in the Romance and Balkan languages.

Term properties
A back-formed verb to clitic-double can be used, e.g. Non-specific objects are not clitic-doubled.

Examples

 * Romanian
 * L-am văzut pe Petru.
 * 3SG.M.CL-I.have seen ACC Petru
 * 'I've seen Petru.'


 * Macedonian
 * Jana go vide volk-ot.
 * Jana 3SG.M.ACC.CL saw wolf-DEF
 * 'Jana saw the wolf.'

Synonyms

 * object doubling
 * object reduplication

Origin
The term has been widespread since the 1980s.

Other languages
German Klitikaverdopplung