[Lingtyp] case suffix is "homonymous" with personal pronoun form

[Peter Austin]

Christian

The language you're looking for is Wangkumarra where case markers are diachronically derived from suffixed pronouns and show a gender contrast as well. It's one of very few Australian languages with tripartite case for A, P, S (see McDonald & Wurm 1979, Pacific Linguistics). Paradigms are in my handout from a talk in Paris in 2024 (http://peterkaustin.com/docs/teaching/2024-09-05_Flagging.pdf).

Best wishes

Peter

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Subject: [Lingtyp] case suffix is "homonymous" with personal pronoun form

Dear colleagues,

I dimly remember that in one or more languages of Australia, case suffixes look like forms of a pronoun declined for the case in question.

Could someone with relevant expertise or a better memory than me please help me out? Name of the language(s) in question would be sufficient; a reference would be even better.

Thanks in advance,

Christian

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