<div dir="ltr">Dear Denys,<div><br></div><div>A similar pattern happens in a few languages I've worked with in western Brazil and Bolivia, but this is done through verbal indexes and not free pronouns. For example, in Oro Win, if you want to express 'I want to sleep' or 'I'm going to sleep' you can say <i>ypen ta ona</i> (sleep 1sg.fut 1sg.nfut) where you are essentially reporting yourself as ''I will sleep I (said)". The first index is always in the future tense and the second in the non-future tense, and while the first index is always in the first person (sg or pl), the second index can be inflected to project the speech onto different reported speakers. I talk about in more depth in a 2018 JHL article called "Historical change in reported speech constructions in the Chapacuran family".</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Josh</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:23 AM Denys T. <<a href="mailto:denys.teptiuk@gmail.com">denys.teptiuk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><div style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dear all, </font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Maybe this question may sound odd to many, but I wondered if there are languages that would have more than one 1SG pronoun, and if yes, how would the two differ from one another? My question mainly relates to reported speech constructions, specifically self-quotations. Since it is quite safe to assume that Reported Speaker = Reporter </span></font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">in self-quotations</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">, I wondered if some language would distinguish the two sources of consciousness: 'I-now'</span><em style="font-family:"Times New Roman";margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </em><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">as Reporter, and 'I-then'</span><em style="font-family:"Times New Roman";margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </em><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">as Reported Speaker. I don’t think I have seen something like this in the literature (might have simply overlooked it), but if you have heard about something like that, I would be interested to know more. Any examples from the languages of your expertise where this (or any other similar distinction related to 1SG pronoun) occurs would be more than welcome! </span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Have a lovely weekend! </font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">From Tartu, </font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(14,16,26);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Denys Teptiuk</font></span></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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