Re: [tied] Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families)

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42961
Date: 2006-01-15

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From: "Mate Kapović" <mkapovic@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families)
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> There is also an example in Western Desert language in Australia. They
> took the 1st pers. pronoun _mi_ from English. It was due to taboo though
> so this might not be such a good example.
>
> Mate

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Patrick:

How was an intended reference to the 'speaker' handled before that radical
solution?

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