Re: Marking nouns with person?

On 9/1/05, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:07:34 -0400, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
> wrote:
> ANADEWism: Elamite marks person on certain nouns. There are essentially
> two classes of nouns.
>
> The pattern is:
>
> First person -k
> Second person -t
> Animate Singular -r
> Animate Plural -p
> Derived Inanimate -me
> Inanimate [zero]
>
> A derived inanimate is where a nominal root usually refering to an animate
>
> thing is derived to a related inanimate noun.
>
> For instance:
>
> I, the king |sunkik|
> you, the king |sunkit|
> he, the king |sunkir|
> they, the kings |sunkip|
> kingdom |sunkime|
> temple |murun|
I think that Nahuatl marks person on nouns similarly: third person is
zero, and second and third person are marked. The noun and verb have
to agree in person. I think that a noun with a person marker would be
a complete sentence meaning "I am/You are/He is .... ", rather than a
possessive ("My/Your/His").

Unfortunately, I don't own the Nahuatl grammar I read this in, so I
can't be more detailed. And I might be a little off since it's been
awhile. =)

--
Kate Sherwood
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