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Re: THEORY: The fourth person

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 27, 2004, 8:36
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