Re: Building up a FAQ: Please reply
| From: | Chris Palmer <cecibean@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 0:45 |
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Nik Taylor writes:
>> separate, distinct sense for 'I and you, but not others'? :-]
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> That would be simply dual inclusive.
I think that's first person plural* exclusive (speaker and addressee(s));
inclusive is speaker, addressee and others.
One of us has it backwards, anyway; the Lexicon of Linguistics on the web
didn't have anything to say one way or the other that I could find.
http://tristram.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/
http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?search=inclusive+first+person&
optie=1
* Or dual, or ... depending on the language's number system.
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Chris
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