Re: THEORY: The fourth person

From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>

> From:    Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
> > How exactly does the so-called 'fourth person' work in Athabaskan
> > languages like Navajo (Dine), and do any other languages have it?
>
> Lots of languages have something like it.  I can't actually speak
> to how they work in Athapaskan languages, but in Algonquian languages,
> there are specific verb forms for an unspecified and generic entity
> (noted as "X").
Is that somewhat similar to the French pronoun "on", the German "man", the
Dutch "men", etc.?

Jean-François Colson

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