Monday, May 18, 2015

Detail #162: Explicit Pronouns as Obviative

In a language with a rich congruence system, it might seem that third person pronouns would per se be a bit superfluous. However, what if explicit third person pronouns began having an obviative role, and emphasizing a proximate referent is done by other means - reduplicating the congruence morpheme or whatever?

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