Re: demonstratives

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:20:11 -0000, James O'Connell
<jamestomas2@...> wrote:

>As I'm doing my demonstrative system in elenyo right now, I was wondering
>how other people had done this. Do you have seperate demonstratives to
>demonstrative pronouns or are they combined? Do they show case etc?
MNCL has the same stems for both "pronouns", "adjectives", and "adverbs",
and the same "cases" as "nouns".

2 of the demonstratives are actually locative forms of the 1st and 2nd
person pronouns:

moc- from m- (1st person), near speaker
  moca (ABS) = this/these as pronoun
  moco (Qual) = this/these as adjective
  moce (Pred) = here
toc- from ta (2nd person), near addressee
  toca (ABS) = that/those as pronoun
  toco (Qual) = that/those as adjective
  toce (Pred) = there

The 3rd demonstrative has its own root:
l- away from both speaker and addressee
  la (ABS) = that/those over yonder
  lo (Qual) = yon
  le (Pred) = yonder

There is also a generic anaphoric root:
Z-
  Za (ABS) = he/she/it/they
  Zo (Qual) = the

Jeff