Query Details
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Question - personal pronouns which change with temporal reference
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| Author: | David Palfreyman |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
Dear Linguists, I recently read an article about self and personhood in various cultures, which states that "there are languages, such as Iaca (New Caledonia), which have sets of [personal] pronouns marked for different tenses, contradicting Western notions of physical continuity [of the self]". I can't find any mention on the web of a language called Iaca; however, his point may well still be true. Can anyone tell me an example of a language which shows the grammatical characteristic which he describes? Thanks for any leads, David Palfreyman Zayed University, Dubai. :-D |
