Re: Pronoun 'bases'/stems (was Re: stress and accusative in Uusisuom)

On Thu, 3 May 2001 22:34:12 -0500 Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
writes:
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:40:15PM +0100, Daniel44 wrote:
> > The letter 'y' in Uusisuom is effectively a pronoun marker (ynu,
> yte, yllu,
> > ymme, ynne)
> Hi, all. Just wondering what other (con|nat)langs have a morpheme
> like this
> that is used in all pronouns. I've had the idea to use Semitic-style
> possessive pronoun suffixes, and make the actual pronouns out of a
> fixed
> pronoun stem plus the correct pronoun suffix.
> --
> Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
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ool-Nuziiferoi and Rokbeigalmki pronouns (almost all the same, since R.'s
was based off of ool-N.'s) all are a vowel followed by the letter Z.  The
plurals are made in ool-N. by adding _ihn_ /In/(if i remember correctly)
to the end, and in Rokbeigalmki by adding _m_ in the middle.
those are the subject ones... the non-subject pronouns replace the /z/
with /S/.

ool-N:
i = az
you = ez /Ez/
she = iz
he = oz
it (inanimate/neuter) = uz
'one' (common/neutral gender) = aaz /&z/

R.:
all the same except for:
'one' = uhz /Vz/


Going to Natlangs, (and Semitic ones at that!) all pronouns in Hebrew
begin with a glottal, either /?/ (i, you-m, you-f, we, you-all-m,
you-all-f) or /h/ (he, she, them-m, them-f).  All the Aramaic pronouns i
know for sure (i, you, he, she) begin with /?/, "we" might begin with /?/
or maybe /n/, i don't know for sure about the others.


-Stephen (Steg),
 who will (if everything stays the same) be taking Arabic 101 in the
fall!