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or other modifiers. Actually it is not completely correct to
say that a subject is introduced twice. What happens is
this. At the beginning of a story, the subject is
introduced. Sometimes, in the sentence that follows, it is
highlighted or focused with di. The use of di always
requires the full form of the subject, usually in the form
of a pronoun because it is already introduced in its most
complete form before being highlighted. See, for example,
the following example of the opening paragraph of a story,
Ureueng Tani ngon Peulandok ('A Farmer and A Mousdeer'). The
subject that is under our attention here is ureueng tani
'farmer.' It is introduced in a full NP in the first
sentence and replaced by a pronoun when highlighted with di
in the following sentence before it is omitted in the
clauses that follow (not included here).
74. Jameun dilee na sidroe ureueng tani
Old time past there is one-CL person farm
Translation:
geu-meuladang bak saboh gle. Asai ka beungoh
3r-do farming in one-CL hill When IN morning
uroe, di gopnvan ka geu-teubiet dari rumoh
day SFC he- PERF 3r-go out from house
£ geu-jak u ladang-geuh.
3r-go to dry farm-3r
Once upon a time, there was a farmer who dry farmed
on a hill. Every morning he left his house and went
to his farm.
As stated above, subject omission in conversation and
stories is obligatory. The obligatoriness of subject