Re: Person distinctions in languages?
| From: | Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 3, 2005, 18:09 |
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Omeina has reverential forms for 2nd and 3rd persons, with no number
distinction in the 2nd person. It also has a 4th person, used for
indeterminate forms
(roughly corresponding to "one says" or "they say that...") Reverential does
not equal "polite" but is used for 'presences', great figures from legend,
and so on.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: Person distinctions in languages?
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:15:53PM -0800, Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> > Emaelivpeith Steven Williams:
> > > Are there any languages that break the pattern of
> > > first-second-third-(fourth) person? I'm trying to
> > > model a system that doesn't use such distinctions, but
> > > I can't figure out how to make it coherent or
> > > intelligible without perhaps a model to base it on.
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