Re: Unconventional pronoun systems-show us yours!

 --- Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...>
schrieb:
> Steven Williams ha tera a:
>
> > Anyone have an unconventional pronoun system to
> share,
> > or criticism of my own system?
>
> Well, one of the languages I dream about but never
> actually work out
> the details of has a pretty odd pronoun system.
>
> It's spoken by one man in a mental institution, and
> was probably
> invented by him, which explains a good deal of its
> oddness (which
> extends to far more than just its pronoun system).
>
> It has no second-person pronouns - no second-person
> forms at all,
> whether pronouns, or inflections, or anything else.
> The man generally
> doesn't address others, but just speaks to himself
That's about how the Gi-an-nain system started out in
my mind. I decided to get rid of the first and second
person forms and keep a rather rich set of third
person pronouns. However, this seemed boring, and I
was struck by a bolt of inspiration while reading
about Dyirbal.

Dyirbal uses a wacky split case system that is divided
along the lines of discourse participant and discourse
non-participant; I forget the specific details, but I
loved the split. So, I discarded everything but that
split between participant and non-participant.

Fortunately, Gi-an-nain is just as pro-drop as
Japanese, so I need not worry myself much over it.
That, and case particles by themselves may be used as
pronouns in informal speech, making the split somewhat
irrelevant (but there is a strong tendency to use them
only for objects that are not a part of the discourse).

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