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whereas etina // tina // ina, atena // tena // ena equally stand for animate and
inanimate things. The reflexive semantics of the pronoun mu is confirmed by
the possessive pronoun muêi – (its derivative) “one’s own” (Compare: possessive
pronouns ateêi // teêi // eêi, etiêi // tiêi // iêi: “amisi, misi” “his, her, its,
this one’s” derived from the pronouns atena // tena // ena, etina // tina // ina).
As for the pronouns atena // tena, etina // tina, are confirmed in their full, as well
as phonetically altered forms: full forms are tena (“he” “she” “it” near us) tina
(“he” “she” “it” far from us); simple(reduced) form: ena / te / e; ina / ti / i. The
language attributed their own and clearly demarkated function to the full and
altered phonetic variants of the given pronouns. The full atena // tena, etina //
tina, as well as reduced forms ena and ina always serve the function of personal
pronouns (atena re Äkimi skua “He is my child”); On the other hand, ate, te, eti,
ti, e and i variants always function as deictic pronouns. ate apxanak’i - “ this
friend”.
According to the above-mentioned, nowadays the distinction between the third
person pronoun and the deictic pronoun can be made without the context as well.
On the synchronic level the coincidence of these forms doesn’t take place not only
in the nominative case, but in the ergative and subsequent cases, as personal
pronouns add case endings (te-k, te-s...), whereas deictic pronouns- (te // e...), as
determiners don’t change either according to the case or number. (te k’oÄi “this
man”, te k’oÄk “this man” {ergative}...). Consequently, on the synchronic level
atena // tena // ena and etina // tina // ina should be considered personal
pronouns and not deictic pronouns, which function as personal pronouns in certain
contexts.
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