Re: Interesting Pronouns.

Björn Kristianson wrote:
>Ello y'all
>
>One of the things I generally find, well, dull in my conlangs are the
>pronouns. They're usually all three persons, singular and plural, possibly
>with added 'dual' pronouns[1], and possibly even 2 or more genders for
>each,
>just to try and make things interesting.
>
>In short, they won't. The result is usually a fairly cluttered table of
>pronouns that don't make too much sense.
>
>So, what I was wondering is if you, my fellow conlangers, have any
>interesting/alternative ways of making pronouns (or perhaps not using
>pronouns at all) that you'd care to share?
What about a minimal pronnoun table? How tiny it can get obviously depends
on how many cases the language has, but with no cases, and no possessive
pronouns, it can become quite small. There doesn't need to be more than one
number, and the 3rd person pronoun can double up as demonstrative pronoun. I
fear you won't get away without the full three persons, tho', and you'll
prolly have to have pronouns for "some", "none", "all" etc. But markedly
smaller than English is clearly possible.

                                                         Andreas

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