Re: ciantwo class system

Ed Heil wrote:
> I'm not sure I'm using obviative correctly, but if it's what I think
> it is, it's what you use to differentiate two members of the same
> class: e.g. "He hit him."  Ambiguous.  "He hit him.OBV" means the guy
> you were talking about first hit the guy you were talking about
> second.
D'oh!  I knew that, I just forgot the terminology.  Watakass=ED has
something similar, but more flexible.  Pronouns can (must?) take two
cases endings.  The first indicates the role that the pronoun has in the
sentence, the second "agrees with" what it refers back to.  Thus, for
instance:

John hit Bill for Bob.  He lives here.  -  If no pronoun is used, "Bill"
is assumed to be the subject.  Otherwise:

Fa-kapa'-tas na-Dtya'n-al na-Bil  na-Baba-tu
Past-hit-3SR G2-John-Erg  G2-Bill G2-Bob-Ben

Now, "he lives here", if he refers to:
Bill: Kla'i-tas-va pi-biili-v  (n-i'sfuna-yu-yu)
      Live-3SR-Hab G7-here-LOC  G2-pron.-Abs-Abs)
John: ... n-i'sfuna-yu-l
          G2-pron-Abs-Erg
Bob:  ... n-i'sfuna-yu-tu
          G2-pron-Abs-Ben
--=20
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