Re: Fourth Persons

Hi!

Mark J. Reed writes:
>...
> But the logophoric pronoun idea is new to me.  I like it.  (Yoink!)
It was new to me, too and I put it on my mental list of things to
experiment with already. :-)

My first conlang Fukhian has five persons: in indirect speech, the
persons shift: 1st becomes 3rd, 2nd becomes 4th, 3rd becomes 5th.
This is similar, but different:

   He said he washed his(3rd person) car.
   -> reflexive meaning: his own car

   He said he washed his(4th person) car.
   -> car of person 'he' talks to

   He said he washed his(5th person) car.
   -> car of yet different person

The inspiration at that time was Swedish, which distinguishes
reflexive from 3rd person in possissives (a different thing, but still
this was the inspiration): _hans_ 'his (reflexive)' vs. _sin_ 'his
(non-reflexive)'.  Only after I had invented the five-person system, I
understood that this was a reflexiveness distinction.

**Henrik

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