HARRINGTON— -TAOS PERSONAL PRONOUN 



first or second member of the pronominal compound is dual and 

 neither is plural, the dual form of the pronoun is used; if either the 

 first or second member is plural, a plural form is used, although the 

 other member may be singular or dual. These dual and plural forms 

 have the animate plural ending -m- to indicate both animate plural 

 and animate or inanimate singular of the direct object (see the second 

 and third person dual and plural forms of series n). In brief, the form 

 is determined by the greatest grammatical number indicated by either 

 the first or second element. 



This series contains a much larger number of ambiguous forms 

 than series ill. Attention is called to the unusual identity between 

 first person singular — for third person and third person singular — for 

 third person forms. 



V. PREFIXED REFLEXIVE-RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS 



I 



we (d.) 

 we (pi.) 



myself 

 ta n - 



ourselves 



kan- 

 kitna- 



you (s.) 

 you (d.) 

 you (pi.) 



yourself 



a n - 



yourselves 



man- 

 ma n ma- 



he or she 

 they (d.) 

 they (pi.) 



himself or herself 

 ma— 



themselves 



an- 



ima- 



The pronouns of this series in the singular correspond exactly to 

 English I — myself, etc., used reflexively; in the dual and plural they 

 are used with both reflexive and reciprocal meaning. For example: 

 ta n mu n , I looked at myself; kanmu n , we two looked at ourselves, we 

 two looked at each other, each of us two looked at himself. Certain 

 verbs are always preceded by reflexive-reciprocal pronouns unless the 

 meaning of the sentence is such as to require pronouns of series vi or 

 series vil. Thus: ta n Lai, I sat down; ta n na n upi, I dived under. 



ta n -, I — myself, and a n -, you — yourself, are identical respectively 

 with ta n -, I — for him or her (series iv) and a n -, you s. — for him or her 

 (series iv). In the third person singular the typical reflexive -ma- is 

 used without any preceding element; ma also appears throughout the 

 plural, being postfixed to ki-, first person plural possessive with s. 



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