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Re: demonstratives

From:Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 20, 2001, 5:07
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