Re: Unknown pronoun

On 7/11/06, Remi Villatel <maxilys@...> wrote:

> I just "discovered" an interesting pronoun in the shaquean grammar:
> /yoç(a)/ [woCa] --where (a) is a case marking.
.......
> So far, I call /yoça/ a singular anaphoric personal pronoun. It belongs
> to the closed class of substitutive (anaphoric/cataphoric) pronouns
> which also contains an impersonal substitutive pronoun.
Does this imply you have some pronouns which
are not substitutive?  How are they used?
In gzb (which is fairly minimalist lexically)
the same word is used for "pronoun" and
"substitution, replacement"; the postposition
for "instead of" is derived from the same root.

I see you have both anaphoric and cataphoric
pronouns.  gzb has a series of anaphoric
and cataphoric pronouns in the third person
for animates, inanimates, and abstract situations
or events; so far it has just one pronoun for
place, theoretically anaphoric but sometimes
cataphoric.  I should probably add another
cataphoric place-pronoun for symmetry.

> Questions: Waddyathink? ANADEW?
/yoç(a)/ is right spiffy.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm

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