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 CHAPTER I

THE PRONOUN.

Brockelmann,, p. 98 ff.; , i. 296 ff. L. Reinisch, ‘Das persönl. Fürwort u. die Verbalflexion in den chamito-semit. Sprachen’ (, 1909).

1. The personal pronoun (as well as the pronoun generally) belongs to the oldest and simplest elements of the language. It must be discussed before the verb, since it plays an important part in verbal inflexion (§§ 44, 47).

2. The independent principal forms of the personal pronoun serve (like the Gk. ἐγώ, σύ, Lat. ego, tu, and their plurals) almost exclusively to emphasize the nominative-subject (see, however, ). They are as follows:

The forms enclosed in parentheses are the less common. A table of these pronouns with their shortened forms (pronominal suffixes) is given in Paradigm A at the end of this Grammar.

Remarks.

First Person.

1. The form is less frequent than. The former occurs in