Re: Tensed Pronouns (was: Tagalog ...)
From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
Date: | Friday, March 5, 1999, 8:34 |
Hmmm. That sounds an awful lot like Teonaht. I've described this construction
repeatedly, and concluded by the overall silence that I had come up with something
unique. However, T's use of this is as a prefix to the pronoun.
Sally Caves
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html
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John Cowan wrote:
> Tim Smith scripsit:
>
> > That sounds like Hausa, which has the tense marking on the subject pronoun
> > rather than on the verb.
>
> Here are some "tensed pronouns" from a rather better-known lang:
>
> Tense/mood 1sg 2sg+pl 3sg/m 3sg/f 3sg/n 1p 3p
>
> Unmarked @j j@ i Si @t wi De
> Conditional @jd j@d id Sid @t@d wid Dejd
> Immediate future Ajm@n@ jug@n@ ig@n@ Sig@n@ Ig@n@ wig@n@ Dejg@n@
> Future Ajl jul il Sil It@l wil Dejl
>
> --
> John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
> e'osai ko sarji la lojban.