resumptive in a sentence

The antecedents of restrictive relative clauses are marked with the restrictive morpheme " i ", which resembles the indefinite morpheme in form alone, e . g . " ezgit dukkTni ke hYzitu aww�l " I went to the places which I saw before . If the antecedent is the object of the relative clause, it will be represented within the relative clause by a resumptive relative pronoun, as in the example above ( " hYzitu " I saw them ).
Language experts have been batting the topic around for a few years : Is the second is a " resumptive marker " or " focus marker, " a strategy for " setting off ( the ) clefted clause " by means of emphasis and repetition ? ( We do the same thing in sentences like " That guy, he's totally wacko ! " ) Does it grow out of the natural repetition used to create a pause in spontaneous speech, as in-to use Stanford linguist Arnold Zwicky's example-" I saw a, a gigantic hound "?

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