Re: THEORY: The fourth person
From: | Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 30, 2004, 0:51 |
Fourth person can certainly apply to objects as well (in Omeina at any
rate!)
Bere gadi "Everyone here sees me, they all see me"
Bere dagi "I see them all, I see you all"
Grammatically this is: Bere "see" ga "4 p. subject" di "1 p.s. object"
vs
da "1 p.s. subject" gi "4 p. object"
The form -ge can also be used as a possessive suffix:
Arade "my country"
Arage "the country of everyone here, all our country" - obviously this
doesn't always translate smoothly into English. The possessive forms can
also be case-inflected:
Hari aragean "The stones of all-our country"
Mike
> My next question is: can fourth person apply to subjects, or only objects?