|
Person
|
Number
|
|
Singular
|
Plural
|
|
Third
|
mó
'he/she'
si 'he/she/it'
[known,visible]
hi 'he/she/it'
[unknown, invisible]
|
mólu
'they'
sikilu 'they'
[known , visible]
hikilu 'they'
[unknown , invisible]
|
|
|
| When the numeral -
nyi ‘two’ occurs with singular pronouns, they function as single lexical
item. This fusion is found only with the numeral - nyi ‘two’. |
 o
+ nyi |
à
|
 nyi
|
‘we two’
|
n
+ nyi
|
à
|
nyi
|
‘you two’
|
m+
nyi
|
à
|
mnyi
|
‘ they two’
|
|
si + nyi
|
à
|
sinyi
|
they two’[known,
visible]
|
h
+ nyi
|
à
|
hnyi
|
‘they two’[unknown,
invisible]
|
|
|
| It is also found possible
to use the numeral along with the classifier - anyi ‘two’ with
third person singular - mo ‘he/she’ like a regular numeral adjective. |
m
anyi
she/he
two
‘they two’
|
|
|
| Deictic
Pronouns : |
| In Apatani a
three-way a three-way division is found in spatial situation in identifying
the relative spatial position of the referent in relation to the locus
of the speaker. This is done through the deictic pronouns (See, Abraham,
1981). They are formed by compounding respective words to the third
person pronoun - si ‘she/he/it’ (known, visible) as shown below : |
|
siksi
|
:
|
the
pronoun indicates proximity
|
|
insi
|
:
|
the pronoun
indicates intermediate distance
|
|
intosi
|
:
|
the pronoun
indicates that the referent is far away from the
speaker.
|
|
|
Demonstratives
are formed by adding the marker - ‘ka’ to ‘si, in, into’, which
are used to form deictic pronouns also and to pronoun - hi
‘he/she/it.’ As a result they become attributes to the headnoun,
but unlike other attributes, they precede the headnoun. |
|
siku myu
|
‘this man (proximate)’
|
|
this man
|
|
|
inka hima
|
‘that boy (intermediate
distance)’
|
|
that boy
|
|
|
intoka pitu
|
‘that hill (very
far)’
|
|
that hill
|
|
|
|
‘that girl (unknown/invisible)’
|
|
that girl
|
|
|
|
