Re: Building up a FAQ: Please reply
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 19, 2002, 10:41 |
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On 18 Jan 02, at 19:44, Roger Mills wrote:
> Taliesin wrote:
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> >1d (linguistic): 1st person dual pronoun, I and you, we two
> >2d (linguistic): 2nd person dual pronoun, you two
> >3d (linguistic): 2nd person dual pronoun, they two
> >1p (linguistic): 1st person plural pronoun, we
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> Very common: lst pl. inclusive 'I and others, including you'
> vs. lst pl. exclusive 'I and others, excluding you'
And also in use: 1st dual inclusive and exclusive (for example, Niue, a
Polynesian language, has five first person pronouns: singular, and then
dual and plural each in both of inclusive and exclusive).
(By the way, it looks to me as if you spelled "1st" [one, ess, tee] as
"lst" [ell, ess, tee]. Typewriter-ism?)
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
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