Re: Inclusive or exclusive?
From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 10:05 |
Thanks to everybody who replied.
I was looking for natlang examples, esp. from the Native/AmerInd langs, so I
really appreciate Dirk's illustrations:
> Shoshoni distinguishes three numbers, singular, dual, and plural, and
> distinguishes 1st person dual and plural inclusive and exclusive. The
> forms are:
>
> ne (1sing); neweh (1du.excl), taweh (1du.incl); nemmen (1pl.excl),
> tammen (1pl.incl)
Thus, _nantay_ would correspond to Shoshoni _nemmen_, while for 1pl.incl I
would need a different root. Maybe I'll need to introduce dual, too. At
least in the pronouns.
-- Yitzik