[Lingtyp] Two 1SG pronouns (in reported speech and beyond)

Lee Pratchett ljpratchett at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 21 18:33:31 UTC 2022


Hello Denys,

Tshwa languages (Kalahari Khoe, Khoe-Kwadi) spoken in Botswana have two 1SG
pronouns - with a morphologically more marked pronoun that is used in
certain pragmatically marked contexts (e.g., contrastive focus, thetic
utterances).

Pratchett, Lee J. 2020. Language contact and change eastern Botswana:
insights from the pronominal system of an undocumented Kalahari Khoe variety
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340311438_Language_contact_and_change_in_eastern_Botswana_New_insights_from_the_pronominal_system_of_an_undocumented_Kalahari_Khoe_language>
(Khoe), *Language in Africa* 1: 33-64.

Best,
Lee

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