Dative Pronouns

[Roger Wright]

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Yes. French (lui < ILLUI)
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>Does anyone know of a language where a dative pronoun becomes the
>nominative? I'm not really interested in languages where the dative and
>accusative fall together, and then that case becomes "nominative". I have
>an example from Pitta-Pitta (Pama-Nyungan) where the orginal 1sg dative
>*ngantya turns up as nominative, a new dative stem is invented and
>accusative is basically unaffected. I believe something similar happened in
>Frisian but I would like some more examples if possible.