Yorùbá subject pronouns

The six pronouns Awobuluyi calls polymorphic nouns take one form as subject, another as object and a third as a genitival qualifier, with further subject forms before some adverbs. Their subject forms distinguish three persons in two numbers, the first person plural making no clusivity distinction. Aremu calls them the weak pronouns. A focused subject leaves the one of its person and number in its position: Èmi ni mo na Akin 'It was me that beat Akin', with mo where a third person subject would leave ó.

Main definitions

• Yoruba.Pronouns.subject: the subject pronoun of each person and number.

References

• [Awo78]
• [Are25b]

def Yoruba.Pronouns.mo : PersonalPronoun

The first person singular subject mo.

Equations

• Yoruba.Pronouns.mo = { form := "mo", person := some Person.first, number := some Number.singular, cases := {Case.nom}, strength := some Pronoun.Strength.weak }

def Yoruba.Pronouns.o : PersonalPronoun

The second person singular subject o.

Equations

• Yoruba.Pronouns.o = { form := "o", person := some Person.second, number := some Number.singular, cases := {Case.nom}, strength := some Pronoun.Strength.weak }

def Yoruba.Pronouns.ó : PersonalPronoun

The third person singular subject ó.

Equations

• Yoruba.Pronouns.ó = { form := "ó", person := some Person.third, number := some Number.singular, cases := {Case.nom}, strength := some Pronoun.Strength.weak }

def Yoruba.Pronouns.a : PersonalPronoun

The first person plural subject a.

Equations

• Yoruba.Pronouns.a = { form := "a", person := some Person.first, number := some Number.plural, cases := {Case.nom}, strength := some Pronoun.Strength.weak }

def Yoruba.Pronouns.«ẹ» : PersonalPronoun

The second person plural subject ẹ.

Equations

• Yoruba.Pronouns.«ẹ» = { form := "ẹ", person := some Person.second, number := some Number.plural, cases := {Case.nom}, strength := some Pronoun.Strength.weak }

def Yoruba.Pronouns.«wọn» : PersonalPronoun

The third person plural subject wọn, as Awobuluyi's table gives it; Aremu prints the resumptive of a plural focus wọ́n.

Equations

• Yoruba.Pronouns.«wọn» = { form := "wọn", person := some Person.third, number := some Number.plural, cases := {Case.nom}, strength := some Pronoun.Strength.weak }

def Yoruba.Pronouns.subject : Person → Number → Option PersonalPronoun

The subject pronoun of a person and number, where Yorùbá has one.

Equations

• Yoruba.Pronouns.subject Person.first Number.singular = some Yoruba.Pronouns.mo
• Yoruba.Pronouns.subject Person.second Number.singular = some Yoruba.Pronouns.o
• Yoruba.Pronouns.subject Person.third Number.singular = some Yoruba.Pronouns.ó
• Yoruba.Pronouns.subject Person.first Number.plural = some Yoruba.Pronouns.a
• Yoruba.Pronouns.subject Person.second Number.plural = some Yoruba.Pronouns.«ẹ»
• Yoruba.Pronouns.subject Person.third Number.plural = some Yoruba.Pronouns.«wọn»
• Yoruba.Pronouns.subject x✝¹ x✝ = none