Re: two pronouns words

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?
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?

The only natlang that I know of that has something like this is
Hungarian, which has a verb ending -lek which means, TTBOMK, "subject
= 1sg, object = 2sg", so "szeretlek" is "I love you" -- while other
verb endings only encode a subject and the object would have to be
rendered by a pronoun.

I think -lek might also mean "1sg - 2sg" in general, and hence also
"subject = 2sg, object = 1sg", but I'm not certain about that.

If you count conlangs, then Klingon has this feature as a regular part
of its verbal morphology: all verb prefixes encode both subject and
object, e.g. vI- "subject = 1sg, object = 3sg/3pl"; cho- "subject =
2sg, object = 1sg"; Su- "subject = 2pl; no object". (Including the
zero prefix, which is "subject = 3sg/3pl, no object OR subject =
3sg/3pl, object = 3pl OR subject = 3sg, object = 3sg".)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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