europidgin | Personal pronouns - The most simple solution

• Autor: europidgin
• Tema: Personal pronouns - The most simple solution
• Data: 2002-09-16 22:11
• Mesaje: 80 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

I guess we all agree to that even in a very simple pidgin we want to be able distinguish between singular and plural and that we also need a way to show possession.

We can drop "io" and use "me". We can also drop "nos" and add a plural suffix "-s" to "me". We then have:

I, me -- me
we,us -- mes

I have to admit that we could make somthing like "varios me" or "me varios". But to add "s" is a short and simple solution.

Then we have the problem with possession. Lets look at the sentence: "I take my book". We can show possesion in three ways.

By word order: Me prende libro me (libro me = my book).

By "de": Me prende libro de me.

By suffix "-a": Me prende mea libro.

Again I think that a suffix is the best solution.

Then we have "mesa" for "our". And further we would have "tu", "tua", "tus", and "tusa".

Further we can drop distinctions between he, she, it etc. Then it could be something like "le", "lea", "les" and "lesa".

Well, it's simple and regular. Perhaps so regular that it's a bit boring.

Personally I think that the best solution is to make the destinction between subject and object and the use of the possessive forms in stead of "de" voluntary.

What do you think???

Bjorn