San Juan Atitán Mam pronouns

Mam has lost the Mayan second person markers and extended the third person ones to the second person, and it makes up the four-way distinction of the language, inclusive, exclusive, second and third, with a set of enclitics that also separate the two first person plurals, as England's sketch describes. In San Juan Atitán Mam, the variety Scott describes, the enclitic is =i, and the personal pronouns come in two series. The independent series, used for objects and for the subjects of non-verbal predicates, has qini for the first person singular, qoy for the exclusive and qo for the inclusive plural, the enclitic =i itself for the second person singular, qi for the second plural, no pronoun for the third singular and qa, the plural marker of the language, for the third plural. The subject and possessor series, used beside Set A and Set B agreement, differs at the first person alone: the singular and the exclusive plural are the bare enclitic, and the inclusive has no pronoun. Whether qi and qa are words or enclitics Scott leaves open, so the entries carry no strength.

Main definitions

• Mam.iDisagr, Mam.qini, Mam.qoy, Mam.qo, Mam.qi, Mam.qa: the pronouns.
• Mam.independent, Mam.subjPoss: the two series by person–number cell.

References

• [Eng17]
• [Sco23]

The pronouns

def Mam.iDisagr : PersonalPronoun

The enclitic =i, the second person singular pronoun and the reduced first person singular and exclusive plural, underspecified for person and number.

Equations

• Mam.iDisagr = { form := "=i" }

def Mam.qini : PersonalPronoun

The independent first person singular qini.

Equations

• Mam.qini = { form := "qini", person := some Person.first, number := some Number.singular }

def Mam.qoy : PersonalPronoun

The independent first person plural exclusive qoy.

Equations

• Mam.qoy = { form := "qoy", person := some Person.firstExclusive, number := some Number.plural }

def Mam.qo : PersonalPronoun

The first person plural inclusive qo.

Equations

• Mam.qo = { form := "qo", person := some Person.firstInclusive, number := some Number.plural }

def Mam.qi : PersonalPronoun

The second person plural qi.

Equations

• Mam.qi = { form := "qi", person := some Person.second, number := some Number.plural }

def Mam.qa : PersonalPronoun

The third person plural qa, the plural marker of the language.

Equations

• Mam.qa = { form := "qa", person := some Person.third, number := some Number.plural }

The two series

def Mam.independent : Agreement.Paradigm PersonalPronoun

The independent series, with no pronoun in the third person singular.

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def Mam.subjPoss : Agreement.Paradigm PersonalPronoun

The subject and possessor series, the bare enclitic in the first person singular and exclusive plural and no pronoun in the inclusive plural and the third person singular.

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