Re: 1st person vocative (was: Language universal?)

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> In the extreme form we have schizophrenia and - this is an area in which,
> thankfully, I have no experience and, indeed, great ignorance -
For the record, the "split" in schizophrenia is not between two (sub)
personalities, but between thinking and feeling, between stimulus
and reaction, or the like.

The divided-personalities problem is called Multiple-Personality Disorder
(MPD) or more recently Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

> I assume
> that if there is articulated interpersonal communication between the
> individual's different persons then 2nd person forms are used just as they
> are in interpersonal intercourse between difference individuals.
DID personas usually refer to one another in the third person.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter