<div dir="ltr">Dear Zach, and dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I'm not aware of the exact phenomenon you're looking for, but I'd like to piggyback on your question, because I have an observation that I find much weirder and have so far not been able to make any sense of:</div><div><br></div><div>In Dalkalaen (Oceanic, spoken in Vanuatu), the first person exclusive pronouns for paucal and plural number are being collapsed with the corresponding second person pronouns. Are there other languages with this property? Does anyone have a theory as to why this might happen?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Kilu</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Zachary O'Hagan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zohagan@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">zohagan@berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>It is known that first plural inclusive pronouns can be used for polite first- or second-person reference in some languages. I am searching for instances in any language in which a first plural *exclusive* pronoun can be used for polite *third*-person reference, or for instances in which a third-person pronoun can be shown to originate historically in a first plural exclusive pronoun. Possible references are much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>-Zach O'Hagan<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Zachary O'Hagan<br>Graduate Student<br>Department of Linguistics<br>University of California, Berkeley<br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div>
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