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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Graedjoan Giantish Pronouns

Graedjoan Giantish has six different pronouns. Pronouns in Graedjoan Giantish do not change based off of their syntactic or their semantic role in the sentence, as they instead adopt case markings. The pronouns of Graedjoan Giantish are:

Person
Singular
Plural
1
zo
zozo
2
dje
dede
3
dzja
dzadza

Graedjoan Giantish indicates reflexivity not through separate pronouns, but through affixes on the verb. The reflexive affixes of Graedjoan Giantish are:

Person
Singular
Plural
1
azo
azozo
2
adje
adede
3
adzja
adzadza

NOTE: The second person singular and the third person singular forms of the reflexive affix and pronoun are irregular. This is due to a sound change that occurred in the transition from Early Graedjoan Giantish, where short words ending with a "d" or "dz" and a front vowel had the "d" or "dz" palatalized. 

d, dz --> dj, dzj/__V[+front]#

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