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Conlangery #108: Obviation

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Using Pronouns in the Verb System

In East Cree, there are two sets of third person pronouns. The proximate set and the obviative set can be used for different things. In some cases, it's possible to have an entire transitive sentence where all of the third person entities in that are obviative. There may be word order funkiness such that proximate noun phrases are expected to occur before anything.

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