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minus-squarelugal@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoI’ve looked it up and the official name is “obviative” and it is sometimes referred to as the “fourth person”.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoThat still sounds like a special type of third person, though I guess that’s just disagreeing about terminology.
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoI see why you would analyze it that way but I also see that it deserves a term in its own rights. As you said, it’s all terminology. There are no objective definitions, at least not in linguistics
I’ve looked it up and the official name is “obviative” and it is sometimes referred to as the “fourth person”.
That still sounds like a special type of third person, though I guess that’s just disagreeing about terminology.
I see why you would analyze it that way but I also see that it deserves a term in its own rights. As you said, it’s all terminology. There are no objective definitions, at least not in linguistics