ABSTRACT
Abe has two series of third person pronouns. One type of pronoun (O-pronoun) has basically the same properties as pronouns in languages like English. The other type of pronoun (n-pronoun) very roughly corresponds to what has been called the referential use of pronouns in English (see Evans (1980)). It is also used as what is called a logophoric pronoun - that is a particular pronoun that occurs in special embedded contexts (the logophoric contexts) to indicate reference to "the person whose speech, thought or perceptions are reported" (Clements 1975). This dual use of n-pronouns makes this pronominal system particularly interesting because it permits placing the logophoric properties in a wider perspective.
