Difference between revisions of "Akachenti Person"

Revision as of 13:48, 8 August 2017

Akachenti appears to have an underlying system of four persons:

gloss	person	singular	plural
1-EXCL	first person exclusive	I	you and I
1-INCL	first person inclusive	of us, I	we
2	second person	you	you
3	third person	he, she, it	they

In practice, person is at the heart of the agreement system and can be quite complex.

person	description	nom. marker	acc. marker	dat. marker	pronoun
first excl.	speaker	a	á	e
second	proximate, animate addressee	a	á	e

first incl.	speaker and addressee	ae	é	e	emene, ementer
first incl.	speaker and generic referent	ae	é	e	emene, ementer
first incl.	speaker and referent	ae	é	e	emene, ementer
second	associated proximate, animate addressee	ae	é	e	emene, ementer

second	addressee (+/- referent)	o	ó	u	usha, ushar
second	proximate, animate referent	o	ó	u	usha, ushar

third	obviate, inanimate, or generic referent	i	í	i	ih

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 | third || style="text-align:left;"|obviate, inanimate, or generic referent || i || í || i || ih