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Austronesian Personal Pronouns
This article describes the personal pronoun, personal pronoun systems of various Austronesian languages. Proto-Austronesian language, Proto-languages The Proto-Austronesian language, Proto-Austronesian and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian personal pronouns below were reconstructed by Robert Blust. In 2006, Malcolm Ross (linguist), Malcolm Ross also proposed seven different pronominal categories for persons. The categories are listed below, with the Proto-Austronesian first person singular ("I") given as examples. #Neutral (e.g., PAN *i-aku) #Nominative 1 (e.g., PAN *aku) #Nominative 2 (e.g., PAN *=ku, *[S]aku) #Accusative (e.g., PAN *i-ak-ən) #Genitive 1 (e.g., PAN *=[a]ku) #Genitive 2 (e.g., PAN *(=)m-aku) #Genitive 3 (e.g., PAN *n-aku) The following is from Ross' 2002 proposal of the Proto-Austronesian pronominal system, which contains five categories, including the free (i.e., independent or unattached), free polite, and three genitive categories. Formosan languages Rukai Below ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personal Pronoun
Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as ''I''), second person (as ''you''), or third person (as ''he'', ''she'', ''it'', ''they''). Personal pronouns may also take different forms depending on number (usually singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and formality. The term "personal" is used here purely to signify the grammatical sense; personal pronouns are not limited to people and can also refer to animals and objects (as the English personal pronoun ''it'' usually does). The re-use in some languages of one personal pronoun to indicate a second personal pronoun with formality or social distance – commonly a second person plural to signify second person singular formal – is known as the T–V distinction, from the Latin pronouns and . Examples are the majestic plural in English and the use of in place of in French. For specific details of the personal pronouns used in the Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
