Italian
Clitic doubling is used as colloquial pleonasm, although it is considered incorrect by some.
Example: a me mi pare di sì ("I think so")
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“If the study of his images
Is the study of man, this image of Saturday,
This Italian symbol, this Southern landscape, is like
A waking, as in images we awake,
Within the very object that we seek,
Participants of its being.”
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A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
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