Slovenian comitative constructions with dual personal pronouns

Abstract

The paper deals with the  Slovenian comitative constructions that encode two human participants who fulfil the same semantic role and are involved in the same event. It analyses their formal and semantic characteristics. A special focus of our analysis is put on the role of the dual in these constructions. We examine the impact of  the  different parameters (pronouns, predicate form, gender and linear order) on the interpretation of the referents’ number in the comitative constructions.