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Pronouns
- From: Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 01:55:47 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Pronouns
- To: romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com
This morning I decided to make a radical departure from the Romance norm with my C-a pronouns. Previously the third person pronouns had been el/al/il and els/als/ils (also tried su/sa/si and eju/eja/eji) in singular and plural respectively. This made the feminine and neuter third person pronouns identical with the articles. It also gave the language a dash of Catalan flavor.
I sorta liked that, but this morning, for some reason (again maybe the cold medicine) I decided that those simply aren't the pronouns that Carrajena uses. The new pronouns are jun/jan/jid and juns/jans/jids. These, like the previous pronons, supposedly derive from "ille" -- most likely the accusative forms rather than the nominative and with probable contamination from the accusatives of "is".
Currently the prononuns are as follows:
ju = I
tu = you (inf)
vosu /-a = you (formal m/f)
jun = he
jan = she
jid = it
nos = we
tus = you (inf pl)
vosus /-as = you (formal pl m/f)
juns/jans/jids = they
Comments?