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Re: Fourth Person

From:Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...>
Date:Monday, October 5, 1998, 1:25
On: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 16:30:15 -0500
Christopher Palmer wrote:
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> 'Presence', like 'animacy' or any other semantic feature, relates only > arbitrarily to 'person-ness' (function as a speaker/hearer in the > discourse).
So, do you think something like a 4th person = "reflexive", and 5th person = "reciprocal" would be more like it? -- ________ Gustavo Eulalio M. Cabral | ______| ,----------------------------------. | | ____ | "My language is my homeland" |` | | |__ | | Fernando Pessoa, Portugese poet || | | __| | `----------------------------------'| |_| |____| `----------------------------------' e mail : g.eu@i.am Homepage: http://i.am/g.eu/ /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \