Does any natural language use obviative pronouns also to refer to nouns that have not been mentioned as such, but which are kind of intrinsically related to prominent nouns in a sentence?
Something like, say,
children look like them.obv = children look like their parents
house had no him.obv = the house had no master
sheep.plur know.3pl him.obv = the sheep know their shepherd
Not all nouns, necessarily, have their own associated nouns such as these; some have many, differentiated by gender and numbers.
When this is supposedly "normally" obviative or an indirect reference like this may be unclear from context.
Also, challenge #1 still stands. I have personally made no progress on it.
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