“Subject pronoun, subject pronoun” is probably really old in Jargon

“Subject pronoun, subject pronoun” is probably really old in Jargon

With that settled, the next question may be whether this comes from casual French, as I suspect, meaning it dates to Fort Astoria/Fort Vancouver days, but not earlier. This is a pattern where a subject personal pronoun gets repeated as a way of strongly topicalizing it and/or making a contrast with some subject that follows. Image credit: Juicy English A restriction to subjects is no surprise at all. Us linguists can explain to you that human su…