Re: Pronounlessly
From: | Rhialto <rhialto@...> |
Date: | Friday, February 12, 1999, 1:27 |
-----Original Message-----
From: Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: 11 February 1999 15:28
Subject: Pronounlessly
> Are there languages that don't have personal pronouns? Or that
>use demonstratives instead? I know some languages do it in the third
>person, but, what about languages that don't have specific pronouns for
>the other persons?
Demua uses slightly modified demonstratives...
kin/lin/win - this that the-other
king/ling/wing - I you he
I had originally planned on using something derived on teh lines of
speaker - listener - hearer, but this seemed neater to me.
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Rhialto
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