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rarum 65

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rarum 65: inclusive/exclusive contrast for 2nd person (‘you several, non-SAPs included/excluded’)

Where found
SE Ambrym (Austronesian), Port Sandwich (Austronesian) (?); Yokuts (Yokutsan); Ojibwe, Cree, Fox, Potawatomi, Naskapi (Algonquian) (?); Otomi (Otomanguean); Abkhaz (East Caucasian) (?); Ghomala? (Grassfield Bantu); Nama (Khoisan); Ordoss (Eastern Mongolian, Altaic); Bavarian (IE) (?)
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
categories and their domains: person, number
Keywords
inclusive, exclusive, 2nd person
Type
rarum
Universals violated
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Source
Simon, Horst (1999). Für eine grammatische Kategorie ‘Respekt’ im Deutschen: Synchronie, Diachronie und Typologie der deutschen Anredepronomina. Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität Berlin. and others

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    In later work (paper given at Konstanz Pronominals workshop) Simon argues that none of these cases is genuine.

    1. May 2020

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