(Udmurt)

PP=Dem

PP=Dem: Third-person personal pronouns are not distinguished from demonstrative pronouns.

(1)monso-jekusp-etikar-i.
I(s)heACCbetweenPROLdoPST.1SG
’I interrupted him/her.’ (Udmurt corpus)

(2)keľdinso-je -ta-jesupyľt-e.
KeldinthatACC thisACCmumble3SG
’Keldin is muttering this and that to himself.’ (Perevoshchikov 1962: 177)

In Udmurt third person singular and plural personal pronouns have the same form as distal demonstratives (1)–(2).

Author: Erika Asztalos


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