Re: two pronouns words
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 24, 2004, 9:16 |
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:00:50 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> > Is there a language in wich, when the nominative and the accusative
> > are two pronouns, the two are in the same word before or after the verb?
I, too, find this phrasing very confusing.
> If I understand you correctly, you are asking whether there are languages
> with words or morphemes that essentially encode both a subject and an object?
There are lots of native American languages that do this. Aleutian
languages, e.g.
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