Re: THEORY: The fourth person

Danny Wier wrote:
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> My next question is: can fourth person apply to subjects, or only objects?
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If I understand this correctly, I think so:

"He thinks/says that he knows"
"He is taller than he thinks"
where the two "he"s do not refer to the same person.
The problem has cropped up in Kash in similar sentences, where we solve it
by using a sequence of verbs for same-subject, but a subordinate clause for
different-subject.

yapila (ya)kaya 'he-1 thinks (he-1)-knows'
yapila re yakaya 'he-1 thinks that he-2-knows'

lavi yavital alo pilani 'more he-tall-1 from=than think-his-1'
lavi yavital alo re yapila ~pilani 'more he-tall-1 from=than that
he-thinks-2 ~think-his-2

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