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A (usually closed) class of words that can replace nouns.
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"se se" in Portuguese
It is a case of two or more homonyms (or homographs) accidentally occurring next to each other. I do not think there is a name for it, but it occurs in all languages and is quite banal. An English exa …
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pronouns with uppercase and lowercase variants
Yes, in German "sie" means "they", but "Sie" means "you" (polite, singular or plural). Thus also "ihr" ("their") and "Ihr" ("your", polite) and "ihnen" ("to them") and "Ihnen" ("to you", polite).
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Is English unusual in having no second person plural form?
In German, in the polite register, the same form is used for 2sg, 2pl, and 3pl ("sie sind"; in 2sg and 2pl it is written "Sie sind", but that is purely a matter of orthography). But in the familiar re …
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Why do two English personal pronouns — "you" and "it" — lack an objective case?
I would not say that these pronouns lack an objective case. It is just that the subject (nominative) and object (accusative) forms are identical. … In Old English, as in virtually all Indo-European languages, neuter nouns and pronouns always have the same form in the nominative and accusative, in the case of Old English "hit" for the 3rd person singular …
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Is there a language without gender in third person pronouns?
For this reason it is futile to draw up a long list of languages that do NOT have gendered pronouns (Turkish, Finnish…..). … It would be more useful to ask which non-Indo-European and non-Afro-Asiatic languages DO have gendered pronouns. …
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Is there a language without words which correspond to the concepts 'I', 'They', 'We'
In many languages the pronouns for the 3rd person singular and plural are, at least etymologically, demonstrative pronouns. … Most languages have personal pronouns in the 1st and 2nd person singular and plural, but in some languages (especially in South-East Asia) these are not used in polite discourse, but are replaced by kinship …
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An idea to phonetically relate Indo-European first-person singular personal pronouns
Since this question is likely to disappear soon into the limbo of unspeakable queries I will restrict myself to a brief answer. The Armenian word for the 1st person singular pronoun is /es/, which in …
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Has any language ever borrowed an interrogative or relative pronoun?
Well, I suppose that in English we do say things like “quiddity” or “being qua being”, at least if we are using the language of Scholastic philosophy.
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