We analyze a morpho-syntactic puzzle from an Austrian variety of Alemannic German,
which we term Lustenau Alemannic. We focus on certain pronouns, termed R-pronouns
in the Germanic linguistics literature, and the way they behave in PPs. Unlike typical nominals
in German, R-pronouns precede prepositions. Across German varieties, many speakers
can extract R-pronouns from PP. This process is also present in Lustenau Alemannic, except
that use of an R-pronoun in PP or extraction of it from PP requires the inclusion of another
morpheme, which normally would mean “it”. In the context of Distributed Morphology and a
Copy Theory of movement, we explain this doubling as phonologically-motivated lower copy
pronunciation in a movement chain through a multi-layered PP.