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Linglib.Fragments.Korean.Pronouns

na — 1sg plain.

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    jeo — 1sg humble.

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      우리 uri — 1pl.

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        neo — 2sg plain.

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          당신 dangsin — 2sg polite.

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            geu (Yale: ku) — 3sg masculine, literary register. 76,235 written vs 145 oral tokens ([KL26] fn. 2).

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              그녀 geunyeo (Yale: kunye) — 3sg feminine, literary register. Compound of ku ('that') + nye ('female'). 25,085 written vs 9 oral tokens ([KL26] fn. 2).

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                gyae (Yale: kyay) — 3sg gender-neutral, colloquial pronoun. Contracted from ku ay ('that' + contracted ai 'child'). 1,160 oral vs 226 written tokens — the reverse register pattern of geu/geunyeo. Implies familiarity between speaker and referent ([KL26] §5). The overt-pronoun referential form tested in [KL26]'s experiments.

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                  그들 geudeul — 3pl. Plural of geu; literary in register (the colloquial plural is the proximal demonstrative + ai-tul).

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                    3rd-person pronouns: literary geu/geunyeo/geudeul and colloquial gyae. Yale-romanization variants (ku/kunye/kutul/ kyay) refer to the same lexical items.

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                      -yo polite particle.

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                        -(su)pnida formal particle.

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                          A verb form showing speech-level inflection.

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                                ga — "go" (plain/intimate).

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                                  가요 gayo — "go" (polite).

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                                    갑니다 gamnida — "go" (formal).

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                                      theorem Korean.Pronouns.has_all_persons :
                                      (allPronouns.any fun (x : PersonalPronoun) => x.person == some Person.first) = true (allPronouns.any fun (x : PersonalPronoun) => x.person == some Person.second) = true (allPronouns.any fun (x : PersonalPronoun) => x.person == some Person.third) = true

                                      All three persons are attested.

                                      theorem Korean.Pronouns.has_both_numbers :
                                      (allPronouns.any fun (x : PersonalPronoun) => x.number == some Number.singular) = true (allPronouns.any fun (x : PersonalPronoun) => x.number == some Number.plural) = true

                                      Both singular and plural are attested.

                                      2nd person pronouns are all second person.

                                      The T/V register distinction is present in 2nd person.

                                      gyae is gender-neutral; geu/geunyeo are gendered. This is the central asymmetry of the Korean 3rd-person system: the colloquial pronoun lacks the gender contrast carried by the literary forms.