Re: THEORY: The fourth person

Tamas Racsko <tracsko@...> wrote:

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On 26 Apr 2004 Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:
> How exactly does the so-called 'fourth person' work in Athabaskan
> languages like Navajo (Dine)?
  I have a Mojave example pair: "n'a.isvar.k i:ma.k" 'when he/she
sang and he/she [the same person] danced' vs. "n'a.isvar.m i:ma.k"
'when one sang and someone else danced'.
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Conlang-related:
In Pisina, timiko is the third person and tiwamiko the fourth person.
Tiwamiko is the reverse of timiko.

sakikiti : enter
sawakikiti : exit

pitisi : daytime
piwatisi : night time

timiko : he/she/it/they
tiwamiko : he/she/it/they else

Back to topic:

In Japanese the linking tag between two predicates whose subjects are
different people is (in theory) -to instead of -te/de:

Kare wa uta wo utau to kanojo wa odoru.
He sings and (then) she dances.

Kare wa uta wo utatte odoru.
He sings and dances.

(but ok, "utainagara odoru" is better.)

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