Winnebago Inclusive/Exclusive and Minimal/Augmented Pronominals

David Costa pankihtamwa at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 16 08:16:03 UTC 2005


An inclusive/exclusive distinction in the first person plural has arisen in
some modern Indo-Aryan languages. In Gujarati, for example, there are 1pl
exclusive /ame/ and 1pl inclusive /a:pne/.

I don't know many details, but this is apparently an areal thing, such that
some southwestern languages of the north Indian area have it but not others.
So another one is Marathi, but not Hindi.

> No trace of an inclusive, per se, in Indo-European generally, as far as I
> am aware, though I wonder if -otros 'others' < Latin alteres in Spanish
> nostotros and vosotros might be originally an exclusive marker (inverted
> in the second person form).  Does anyone know?  



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