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