Re: THEORY: The fourth person

Hi!

Ray wrote:

> > (e.g. as an inflection on the verb).
>
> But all the examples below have the same verb.
Ah, I did not notice this when I wrote the mail. :-) Stupid me.  I was
too fascinated by the polar bear.

Greenlandic has the same 4-person distinction it has for possessives
in its participal, conjunctive and its three subordinative moods on
verbs, where the 3rd reflexive then refers to the matrix clause.  The
language marks both ergative and absolutive argument on the verb in
all four persons and in number.

I did not know Latin had these fine distinctions, too.  Nice.
Probably I should have paid more attention at school. :-)

I remember that Swedish has 'hans bil'- 'his(other person's) car'
vs. 'sin bil' - 'his(own) car'.

Bye,
  Henrik

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