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nonesuch 67

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nonesuch 67: a three-way distinction among personal pronouns between ‘singular speaker’, ‘singular non-speaker’ (i.e. addressee or other), ‘plural’ (any speech-act role or combination of roles).

Where found
Balante (West Atlantic, Niger-Congo)
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
categories and their domains: person, number
Keywords
personal pronoun
Type
nonesuch
Universals violated
none
Source
Wiesemann, Ursula (1986). Preface. In Wiesemann (ed.) 1986, vii-ix.
Wiesemann, Ursula (ed.) (1986). Pronominal Systems. Tübingen: Narr.