Welsh to Albanian: repeated reference need not mean an extra recipient
Welsh can repeat a personal reference inside one relationship
Welsh Universal Dependencies illustrates gwrando arni, listen to her, alongside gwrando arni hi. The additional Welsh personal pronoun can reinforce the same referent; it does not automatically add another woman to the event.
Albanian Universal Dependencies describes clitic doubling of dative objects, with an example containing both a short pronominal form and the fuller dative expression. An Albanian translation can consequently refer to the same recipient in more than one visible position. Counting those forms as separate participants would misread the construction.
For an original Welsh message about allowing a group to enter, the group granted permission remains one set of recipients. A short Albanian pronoun alongside a fuller group reference need not mean that another group also receives permission. Conversely, deleting one element purely because Welsh expressed the relationship differently can remove a required part of the target construction.
One joined form can also contain two distinct references
The Albanian overview separately analyses ma as a combination of first-person dative and third-person accusative clitics. That differs from repeating one recipient through doubling: here the grammatical contributions identify different roles.
The Welsh Foundation guide lists preposition patterns for giving and sending to someone. A Welsh message can therefore identify both the thing transferred and its recipient through a construction whose target equivalent groups personal references differently. A single joined Albanian form is not necessarily evidence that one source participant has disappeared.
For an original Welsh instruction, compare sending an item to the writer with sending the writer to a destination. These have similar transfer-related vocabulary but reverse which entity is moved. The target’s recipient and direct-object contributions must retain those roles. Surface word count cannot establish whether both were translated, and a visibly repeated recipient cannot substitute for the item being transferred.
A short connector can instead belong to a possessive phrase
Albanian also uses connective forms in possessive constructions. The overview’s shkronjat e librit means the letters of the book; the connector agrees with the possessed item. It is not an additional recipient of a transfer.
Welsh dependent personal forms likewise occur in both possession and object-related constructions, but their interpretation depends on the phrase. The source examples fy nhŷ, my house, and fy ngweld, seeing me, demonstrate why a personal-looking form must be interpreted through its grammatical environment.
For an original Welsh request concerning a book’s letters or text, distinguish the material being discussed, the person receiving a message about it, and the possessor relationship within the noun phrase. Albanian can distribute those relationships across connectors, case forms, and clitic pronouns. A correct result preserves the three relationships without treating every short element as a separate person or every joined form as one indivisible role. The source preposition and governing verb help establish what the Albanian pronouns actually refer to.
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