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Analytical system of building pronouns based only off of singular forms
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The most basic analogy I know is multiplication. The words I, You (SG), and it can be thought of as 2, 3, and 5. To refer to "we", as in You and I, join the words. This is akin to multiplying prime numbers to make a new number, as 2*3=6, and so on, each resulting in a unique value made from the singular pronouns.
The most basic level begins with the four persons and a query. The persons are I (1), you.sg (2), it (3), and one (4). The query is a fancy "fill in the blank", as with most English question words which are also present in this system merely from the inclusion of the general query root. The third person pronoun, as in English, will have three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter (he, she, it).
Cases:
There are a total of three given noun cases in the tripartite alignment system, agent-subject-patient, which naturally will also apply to pronouns.
There are four additional pronominal cases which may seem odd to some. These cases are for time (now, then), objects (this, that), and locations (here, there).
Imposed limitations:
Query is not allowed to combine directly, instead use conjunctions as would in English "with me and whom?"
Only first and second persons may combine with the fourth person, forming the two forms 1+4 = me and someone, and 2+4 = you and someone.
When combining persons (say, 1+2) the result does not account for whether either part is plural, and is left ambiguous (we.i could mean I and either singular you, or plural you)
Main table:
| - | I | You | It | He | She |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | We(r) | We(i) | We | We(m) | We(f) |
| You | We(i) | You(a) | You | You(m) | You(f) |
| It | We | You | They | They(m) | They(f) |
| He | We(m) | You(m) | They(m) | Guys | People |
| She | We(f) | You(f) | They(f) | People | Girls |
Certain contrasts exist for the sake of simplicity and ease of adjustment:
You is assumed collective, unless marked with (a) which limits you to people in the audience.
We is assumed exclusive unless marked with (i) to include you.
They is assumed neuter, to contrast with people which is neutral.
Where the following key letters refer to...
R: royal
M: containing masculine (he), not necessarily all masculine
F: containing feminine (she), not necessarily all feminine
As mentioned, query is not allowed to combine directly, and 'one' can only combine with I & you, forming we (h) & you (h); h for hypothetical.
Cases and proximity:
The next important feature of pronouns, and nouns generally, is role marking. Each noun (possibly including proper nouns, to be determined) declines to mark either being the agent, subject, or patient of a verb clause. For pronouns, but not nouns generally, there are four more markings: objects, locations, times, and reasons. The implementation of reason was tenuous at first, but allows for a canonical version of "because" when it is used in a similar sense to what?->that, why?->because. The following table will demonstrate how English already possesses the majority of the potential words which are here roped in with pronouns.
| x | Agent | Subject | Patient | Item | Location | Time | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I.a | I.s | Me | this | here | now | because.1 |
| 2 | You.a | You.s | You.p | that | there | then | because.2 |
| 3 | It.a | It.s | it.p | yond | yon | yon.when | because.3 |
| 4 | One.a | One.s | One.p | something | somewhere | sometime | because.4 |
| I | Who/what | Who/what | Who/what | what | where | when | why |
There are a few points of confusion still, but there are certain points where English is insufficient.
First is yon.when, which I use here as a kind of yonder time.
Second is the some-words in the 'one' column, which are used here in the same sense as the word 'one'.
Third is the who/what vs what distinction. In this sense, English makes a humanity distinction, but clearly we know that all places where 'who' may be used can also fit 'what': Who sent the message? What sent the message? This distinction is not present, only the distinction of role: Agent, Subject, Patient, and Object. Object generally refers to things like "this", but also can mark indirect objects for ditransitive verbs.
Fourth is the various persons of 'because'. Because 1-4 are defined by various degrees of obscurity:
B.1 is a direct reason "the noise came from that ringing bell", there are no mediating steps (besides to a physicist who recognizes the steps involved in transmitting the bell's vibration through air) to causing the noise.
B.2 is an indirect reason "the glass broke because it slipped off the table", it is indirect because the breaking is not the result of slipping off the table, the glass can be caught mid-fall; the glass broke because it hit the floor, which was only possible after it slipped.
B.3 is an "obscure" reason "the bell rang because of the impending storm", it is obscure because there are many steps involved in the chain of cause and effect: someone found out about the impending storm, then decided to strike the bell, and then the bell rang because it was struck. There may even be more steps involved, such as how the person came to make that decision, or came to learn about the storm.
B.4 is a reason "the cup broke just because", 'a reason' generally is the logical version of "that", and translates most literally as "for some reason" which serves the purpose of drawing attention to the reasons behind some event specifically.
B.I is fairly obvious and translates (as far as I am aware) literally to 'why' ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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