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=== Pronouns === | === Pronouns === | ||
The first group of pronouns are | The first group of pronouns are used in intransitive clauses. They consist of both independent and cliticized forms. The animacy of each pronoun is arranged in the following hierarchy: | ||
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Plurality generally does not affect the animacy level across persons. However, if two 3rd person arguments have the same animacy and one of the arguments is plural, then the plural argument is assigned a higher animacy level. | Plurality generally does not affect the animacy level across persons. However, if two 3rd person arguments have the same animacy and one of the arguments is plural, then the plural argument is assigned a higher animacy level. | ||
The following table lists the forms of the simple | The following table lists the forms of the simple pronouns: | ||
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|+ '''Intransitive Pronouns''' | |+ '''Intransitive Pronouns''' | ||
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! rowspan ="2"| | ! rowspan ="2"| Person | ||
! colspan="2"|Singular | ! colspan="2"|Singular | ||
! colspan=" | ! colspan="3" | Plural | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Independent | ! Independent | ||
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! Clitic | ! Clitic | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! 1 | ||
| style="text-align:center"| ak | | style="text-align:center"| ak | ||
| =ák | | =ák | ||
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| =yoy | | =yoy | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! 2 | ||
| style="text-align:center"| kā<br/> ka | | style="text-align:center"| kā<br/> ka | ||
| =ká | | =ká | ||
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| =koy | | =koy | ||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! 3 | ||
| style="text-align:center"| tā <br/> ta | | style="text-align:center"| tā <br/> ta | ||
| =tá | | =tá | ||
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If used as a core argument, the singular forms and the plural short forms may appear just before the clause-final copula ''itá'',e.g. ''Nitori kā itá!'' (You are a fool); | If used as a core argument, the singular forms and the plural short forms may appear just before the clause-final copula ''itá'',e.g. ''Nitori kā 'itá!'' (You are a fool); or the clitic form of the pronoun attaches to the main verb, e.g. ''Nitoriká 'itá!''. They may also be used to emphasize a noun, in which case the pronoun precedes the noun linked with the connective ''si='', as in ''tā si=naho'' (She/Her, the mother). | ||