WHAT vs. WHO

[Bernhard Waelchli]

There is a very interesting paper on this question by Nicole Nau (1999) 
"Was schlägt der Kasus? Zu Paradigmen und Formengebrauch von 
Interrogativpronomina" in STUF 52.2: 130-150  including the discussion of 
Latvian and Kayardild.

With best regards,
Bernhard Waelchli

>Hello to everybody,
>can anybody help me with the following issue?
>         Do you know of languages, either contemporary ones or in earlier
>times, which do not distinguish between person and thing (animate vs.
>inanimate) in their pronouns? E.g., English has WHO vs. WHAT