Dogri to Albanian: one small form can express an object while another links a possession
A recipient may appear twice grammatically
Sawhney’s Dogri transfer example marks the recipient with gi after the name. Albanian uses a different pattern for dative objects: the Universal Dependencies overview describes obligatory clitic doubling. A full recipient phrase can appear together with a short pronominal element without introducing a second recipient.
The Albanian example kjo u lejon atyre të contains both u and atyre in the relevant relationship. For a Dogri permission message, do not read that repetition as two distinct groups being permitted to act. The target can refer to the same group through a full expression and its associated clitic.
This is different from making the Dogri recipient marker into an extra person. In the source account of Ram giving Rani a book, gi follows Rani and identifies her role. The Albanian construction must preserve that single recipient, even if its grammar represents the relationship in more than one place. Counting person-like words will not reliably count recipients.
A joined form can contain two object references
The Albanian overview also analyzes ma as a combination involving first-person dative and third-person accusative material. A short joined form can therefore contribute both a recipient reference and a reference to the thing concerned. It is not simply a smaller spelling of an independent name.
For an original Dogri request to give the item to me, separate the speaker as recipient from the item as object. The target can package those references together. A reviewer looking for one Albanian word corresponding to Dogri me and a second separate word corresponding to it may mistakenly conclude that one participant has vanished.
Conversely, a target containing the expected recipient reference can still refer to the wrong item. The two grammatical roles must be interpreted inside the joined form rather than accepted as one unanalyzed equivalent of the Dogri postposition. This distinction is particularly useful when the source names the item in an earlier sentence and uses a shorter reference in the request.
An agreeing linker performs another job
Albanian also uses short connecting elements in possessive constructions. The overview illustrates shkronjat e librit, the letters of the book, with the connector agreeing with the possessed letters. That relationship is not object doubling. A short form between nouns must be read through its noun-phrase construction rather than assumed to identify another participant in the action.
Dogri genitive da, de and di likewise agree with the possessed head in Sawhney’s description. The useful resemblance is agreement with the item, not a fixed mapping from one short visible form to another. The target noun’s number and gender determine its own connector pattern.
An original Dogri message can therefore mention somebody’s document and then ask for it to be given to a recipient. Albanian may use a connector in the ownership phrase and a clitic in the transfer clause. Those small elements have different functions. Preserve ownership, object reference and receipt separately; a correct-looking tiny word in one construction cannot compensate for confusing the roles in the other.
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