2008/11/14 by Pierre J. Bancel, Alain Matthey de l'Etang · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Linguistics and language evolution #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
paper · doi:10.1075/z.145.32ban
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In further defense of the Proto-Sapiens antiquity of global kinship etymologies, we illustrate the long-lasting survival of personal pronouns first in the Indo-European family, then in the Eurasiatic macrofamily of languages. We then put forward a conjecture about how the category of 1st and 2nd person pronouns might have originated.