Re: Pronouns again

Sorry! Not only did I hit the "Send" button twice, but I didn't go
to "Preview" to see that the phonetic symbols I had carefully
inserted went to total gibberish. Here it is again in the closest
alphabetic equivalents:
As an innocent trying to follow the learned discussion on
Eskimo *u-a-nga "I", if I'm correctly summarizing Rasmussen
(19314), he breaks it down into /u-/, a deictic pronoun, /-a/ an
emphatic, and -nga "I, me" "related to the 1sg possessive marker
*-ka".
The only book on my shelf that I thought might have anything
relevant is Greenberg's "Indo-European and its Closest
Relatives". On page 66 I was pleased to find the
Greenlandic 'uvanga' but compared to the Sirenik 'menga' where 'm'
is the good old Eurasiatic 1sg, with Greenberg's comment "one is
reminded of the m ~ b variation in Altaic and Japanese". I take
it he is assuming it's obvious that v = b (and in turn = m),
putting the core of the word where Jens just has a syllable
break.
On pages 77-81 Greenberg reconstructs a Eurasiatic 1sg pronoun
e-ghe/a-m built from an emphatic focusing e- "that", + ghe
~gha "am" + -m "I". The middle part is a pronoun base GE,
whose "original meaning, which we may as an initial hypothesis
characterize as a copula, will become clearer in the course of the
discussion". I'm afraid it doesn't for me.
Amazing how many ways a short word can be chopped up!
Dan
(And thanks, Brian, for the explication of "Ladefoged")