Re: Igassik pronouns
From: | daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> |
Date: | Saturday, November 4, 2000, 15:17 |
Marcus Smith wrote:
<-- snip Igassik pronominal system -->
Very nice distinctions. I especially like how you combine levels of
formality with distance (proximate/distal). Have you considered doing
this for the other 3p formality levels too? The "animal" person, is a
really strange one, including other people's babies and "freaks". Is
there a natlang out there that does this?! It's funny and yet at the
same time very disturbing... :)
> "When you lose a language, it's like
> dropping a bomb on a museum."
> -- Kenneth Hale
I really like that quote.
daniel
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