Re: Fourth Person
| From: | Christopher Palmer <reid@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 5, 1998, 2:55 |
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Gustavo Eulalio wrote:
> > 'Presence', like 'animacy' or any other semantic feature, relates only
> > arbitrarily to 'person-ness' (function as a speaker/hearer in the
> > discourse).
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> So, do you think something like a 4th person = "reflexive", and
> 5th person = "reciprocal" would be more like it?
No.
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