Pronoun tags

In Shaetlan the object form of the personal pronoun can be used as a tag at the end of a statement. This grammatical tool is called dislocation, where things are shifted around for the sake of emphasis.

 – A'm stentit, me. (approx. 'I am really full, I am')

 – Shø's in Waas, her. (approx. 'She's in Waas, she is')

Standard English can also make use of tags, but not in the same way, as the translations indicate. Dislocation is found in many languages of the world, and is usually a tool used by the speaker to adjust the information flow or to emphasise things. Many languages use tags for this, but exactly how the tags look will differ between languages. The Shaetlan pronominal tags are a neat, economic grammatical device for emphasising the subject in the clause. It is neither wrong, nor slang nor sloppy speech, but proper Shaetlan grammar. To "correct" it would be misguided.

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