inclusive/exclusive

shokooh Ingham shokoohbanou at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Dec 17 19:04:56 UTC 2005


This is what I found strange about the use of 'dual'
here to
Bruce


> To me 'dual' refers to nominal or pronominal
> category in which both members of the duality have
> to occupy the same argument category, i.e., "I see
> you" wouldn't qualify as a dual in the Indo-European
> (and I suspect Americanist) tradition.  Both
> participants would have to share subjecthood or
> objecthood, etc.  As I recall Dixon's person
> categories are 1st, 2nd, 3rd and inclusive.
>  
> Bob
> 



		
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