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How to create irregular pronoun paradigms
Hungarian is an interesting example - the (personal) pronouns are not inflected by the (agglutinative) suffixes, but vice versa, the suffix is inflected by the pronoun.
E.g. the dative suffix is -nek (...
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How to create irregular pronoun paradigms
To get a disconnect that extreme between different cases of the same pronoun, there's really only one tool for the job: suppletion.
Suppletion is the process where Word A gets reanalyzed as an ...
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