inclusive/exclusive

[David Costa]

This sounds to me like there's no reason to use the term 'exclusive'; that
/unye/ is a sort of 'dual inclusive', and /unyanpi/ is just generic 'first
person plural'. An 'other' category.

So unless I'm missing something, the terminology Algonquianists use isn't
really appropriate here.

Dave Costa



> The point is that unyanpi is neither exclusive nor inclusive -- it is
> 'I and others'.  On the other hand, unye 'you and I went' could only be
> used to remind someone of something the two of you had done at some point;
> it has to be limited to two people, and only the speaker and a single
> addressee are available.  It's most common as an imperative -- unyin
> kte heci 'let's go', said to one person.
>
> David S. Rood
> Dept. of Linguistics
> Univ. of Colorado
> 295 UCB
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