Clusivity[psor]: possessor’s clusivity
| Values: | Ex | In |
Clusivity is a feature of first-person plural personal pronouns. Clusivity[psor] is possessor’s clusivity, marked e.g. on nouns in Mbyá Guaraní. These noun forms would be translated to English as possessive pronoun + noun.
This layered feature is conveniently used for possessive inflections
of nouns, although nouns normally do not have a Clusivity feature,
meaning that no other layers are needed. Nevertheless, the possessive
morphology typically also includes Number, which could be confused
with the number of the noun, and we thus have Person[psor] together with Number[psor].
This layered feature is normally not used with possessive pronouns.
They traditionally have just simple Clusivity.
(And in some languages, possessive pronouns are actually identical to
personal pronouns in the genitive case.)
In: inclusive possessor
Includes the listener, i.e. we = I + you (+ optionally they).
Examples
- [gun] ñandejaryi “our (my+your) grandmother” (lit. B1.PL.INCL-grandmother)
Ex: exclusive possessor
Excludes the listener, i.e. we = I + they.
Examples
- [gun] orejaryi “our (my+their) grandmother” (lit. B1.PL.EXCL-grandmother)