ABSTRACT

The disjunctive forms of the personal pronouns show a four-way Case contrast in the first and second person singular; nominative for subjects, accusative/dative for pronouns governed by the preposition a, comitative for pronouns governed by kin 'with', and oblique for pronouns governed by other prepositions (see 4.3.2). The forms attested in the dialect in which our examples are cited are listed in Table 5.1. Note that when disjunctive pronouns function as direct objects, they are always preceded by a, by virtue of the prepositional accusative phenomenon discussed in 2.2.6. Consequently the items mie and tie can never occur without a, which is sometimes written as part of the pronoun: ammie, attie.