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Re: two pronouns words

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Friday, December 24, 2004, 13:33
Hi!

# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> writes:
> 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?
Greenlandic and Inuktitut have combined person inflection at least. I don't have the tables at hand, but for verb endings, you need a four-dimensional affix table for the categories ergative-person * absolutive-person * mood * negation to get the right verb ending. It has fused so much that the categories are not visible separately (you sometimes see *some* vague pattern for certain moods and negation, but it is almost totally irregular throughout the table). E.g. some Greenlandic I remember off head: ajunngilaq ajuk-nngilaq (or maybe ajuq-) ajuk-NEG.IND.3s bad.not-is 'It is good.' ajunngitsoq ajuk-nngitsuusoq ajuk-NEG.SUBORD.3s 'that it (not in sentence) is good' Concerning personal endings only, I think there is: -Vai = POS.IND.3s/3p (the slash separates ABS and ERG argument) -Vaa = POS.IND.3s/3s -Vooq = POS.IND.3s (ABS argument only) -Vunga = POS.IND.1p **Henrik