Re: revisions in Tepa number marking

J Matthew Pearson wrote:

> The first thing would be two expand the number of categories in the agreement
> system.  I recall that Tepa agreement prefixes only mark person of subject and
> object, not number.  This is a cool feature, and I presume you would want to keep
> it in the revised Tepa, but you might consider adding some finer person
> distinctions than just the standard 1, 2, and 3.  For example:
>
>   1      me (1st singular)
>   1+2    me and you, us two (1st dual inclusive)
>   1+2+3  me and you and other(s) (1st plural inclusive)
>   1+3    me and other(s) (1st dual/plural exclusive)
>   2      you (2nd singular, or plural when addressing a group)
>   2+3    you and other(s) (2nd plural, when addressing part
>             of a group)
>   3      other(s) (3rd singular/plural)
I notice I didn't quite get that right:  The 1+2 form would be used to mean "us" when
addressing an individual or a group, while the 1+2+3 form would be used to mean "us"
when addressing part of a group (on analogy with the 2+3 form).

Matt.