Re: Resumptive pronoun?

En réponse à claudio <claudio.soboll@...>:

>
> however i see no real need for an explicit resumptive pronoun beside a
> demonstrative pronoun.
> both express the same concept.
>
No they don't. A resumptive pronoun refers to things/beings which are in the
speech, while demonstrative pronouns refer to things/beings which are around in
our space-time continuum. As short, resumptive pronouns refer to the *inside* of
the *speech*, while demonstrative pronouns refer to the *outside* of the
*speech*, the world around us. It just happened that in most Western IE
languages both functions have conflated. Still, if it's true that you usually
don't need the distinction, it seems to me that you want to be quite precise
with your language. Thus you should dissociate those two functions.

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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