double subject

double subject
double subject
This is a name for a construction in which a noun subject is followed by a supporting pronoun, as in Longfellow's The skipper he stood beside the helm. The OED describes this use as ‘common in ballad style and now in illiterate speech’. Examples:

• From time to time I clean. Mrs Pollypot she don't like cleaning. —Mary Wesley, 1983

• My cousin he didn't go to college —Jessica Williams (citing a second-language learner), 1987.


Modern English usage. 2014.

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