text_combined: sum verbal pronominal feature differences earlier month posted following query languages people know distinctions carried verbal morphology indicated pronominal system example language expressed gender differences verbs pronouns following people kindly replied various pieces useful information antton elosegi aldasoro fvpelala sd ehu es ariel mira mariel ccsg tau ac il ellen l contini morava elc9j faraday clas virginia edu simon corston corston humanitas ucsb edu brian joseph bjoseph magnus acs ohiostate edu june wickboldt jwickbol ucs indiana edu replies two promising examples asking come basque hebrew pronominal verbal systems match gender antton elosegi aldasoro fvpelala sd ehu es basque gender nouns pronouns verbal forms carry distinction gender 2nd person nik ekarri diat nik ekarri dinat erg give youmasc erg give youfem antton elosegi university basque country ariel mira mariel ccsg tau ac il hebrew normal verbal inflections past future distinguish person gender number 2nd 3rd persons number 1st person far good free pronominal system however present tense morphologically nominal form eg holexet walk fem well walker fem nominal forms nothing pronominal forms inflects number gender distinguish persons result 1st person present inflection distinguishes fem masc though independent pronoun modern hebrew losing gender distinctions 1 future tense 3rd pers plural fem form hardly ever used even purist language academy abolished form nt seem ever past tense 2 colloquial speech happening 2nd person doubt 2nd 3rd person plural fem forms identical though masc ones converged 3 needs checked free plural feminine pronoun well past inflections seem shaking real data recorded nt make much wonder whether mixed forms possible namely youfem go masc etc theoretical note hopefully find examples looking believe others saying hundred years inflections tend develop free pronouns hence dependence meanings encoded though principled reason inflection change later guess really unlikely though form inflected fused verb chances wont develop separate semantics interested theories development inflection pronouns accounts wellknown fact inflections 1st 2nd person much prevalent 3rd person claim 3rd person unmarked rather since referents 3rd person usually much less accessible referents 1st 2nd person speaker addressee minimal forms reserved accessible referents general hence inflections natural development free pronouns highly accessible antecedents look book accessing np antecedents routledge 1990 chapter 6 following two respondents quote cases logophoric obviative marking occur attached verb rather pronoun refer seems particles inflections though sure exactly would classify june wickboldt jwickbol ucs indiana edu languages logophoric reference mark reference verbal affixes pronouns pronominals two newari see karen ebert 1986 reported speech languages nepal f coulmas ed direct indirect speech berlin mouton de gruyter gokana see hyman larry bernard comrie 1981 logophoric reference gokana journal african languages linguistics 3 1937 brian joseph bjoseph magnus acs ohiostate edu algonquian language cree spoken canada category known literature obviative provides way distinguishing different thirdpersons discourse first one mentioned proximate next one mentioned obviative cree distinguish unambiguously john met bill walking street rhe english refer either john bill cree would unambiguously one part relevant marking shows verb thus verb form sentence would different john walking bill walking nouns show obviative proximate marking though one class socalled inanimate nouns proximate obviative forms demonstrative pronouns personal pronouns thus wi ya proximate well obviative pronouns usually expressed cree look personal pronouns cree would language sort looking matter facts similar virtually algonquian languages nt cree finally two respondents noted independent pronouns necessarily marked case way pronominal affixes phenomena seem rare e g arabic assuming cases marked ellen l contini morava elc9j faraday clas virginia edu swahili part verb morphology subject object prefixes signal info participant role respect action verb distinction made among independent pronouns distinguish person number since subject object prefixes swahili often called pronominal nt know counts distinction cant made pronouns simon corston corston humanitas ucsb edu press pacific linguistics series anu discuss ergativity roviana roviana special pronominal forms used absolutive ubject intr object different forms ubject tr pronouns make distinctions person number incl ecl 1pl pronominal verbal affixes verb always e whereas independent prons nt distinguish pronominal affixes somewhere around brief sketch roviana sending people found everything interesting happy receive info query thanks responded maik gibson university reading