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Conlangery #22: Pronouns

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The Limits of Third Person Pronouns

The boundary between pronouns in the strict sense, demonstratives and other sorts of determiners like definite and indefinite articles is always fluid. I mean they're always changing this way and that way. In more than one language, the boundary between those and copulas are even kind of loose. So all of that stuff is free form. So I hesitate to say any of it is stable. And then sort of the last thing in your list that you gave us, William, sorry to have based this all on your notes. But that's fine. You mentioned you just listed pro drop and I like pro drop. It's like after English you just want to drop the stupid pronouns. Well English can

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