Re: THEORY: The fourth person
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> | 
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 8:36 | 
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Hi!
Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> writes:
> How exactly does the so-called 'fourth person' work in Athabaskan languages
> like Navajo (Dine), and do any other languages have it?
Inuit-Aleut languages also have four, splitting our 3rd one into 3rd
non-reflexive and 3rd reflexive.  These two have a totally different
set of inflectional endings.
My book about Kalaallisut still names them 3 and 3R for clarity.
**Henrik