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Is There a Difference Between Pronouns and Subjects?
In most languages, we just use reflexive pronouns. It turns out this is sensitive to animacy. Basque has a separate intensive marking for first and second person pronouns. Third person pronouns all the way up to inanimate abstractions have a different way of markingintensive. Japanese has g-shin for all animates and pronouns and g-tai for inanimate of all sorts. German has zelpsed for everything, but has no way to do an intensive for abstractions. Spanish uses Mismo, Misma for everything from first person pronoun up to abstraction. So there's a lot of possibility there for some, an animacy hierarchy I had never heard of until a