clusivity

In theory, clusivity of the second person should be a possible distinction, but its existence is controversial.

Clusivity is nonetheless a very common language feature overall.

They distinguish three persons (with a clusivity distinction in the first person) and four numbers (Bradshaw 1982a).

Pronouns in Biak are marked for number and clusivity.

Clusivity: Typological and case studies of the inclusive-exclusive distinction.

At least Marwari proper and Harauti have a clusivity distinction.

There is clusivity but no genders or classifiers.

Horst J. Simon provides a deep analysis of second-person clusivity in his 2005 article.

Pronouns show person, number, and clusivity.

Marshallese 1st person plurals mark for clusivity.

All pronouns in Ambai mark for number, person and clusivity (in first person).

Clusivity paradigms may be summarized as a two-by-two grid:

It is not uncommon for two separate words for "I" to pluralize into derived forms having a clusivity distinction.

Genitive pronouns also distinguish three persons (plus clusivity) and four numbers (Bradshaw 1982).

All tenses use the same suffixes as the Present tense for dual and plural numbers and clusivity.

In Cebuano, like most other Austronesian languages, the first person plural forms encode clusivity.

The copular suffixes distinguish gender in all persons as well as clusivity in the 1st person.

There is a tendency in usage for the pronouns nós and a gente to be differentiated according to "clusivity".

Some languages with more than one plural number make the clusivity distinction only in, for example, the dual, but not in the greater plural.

Dual and plural pronouns distinguish clusivity as well as moiety (or 'section') and generation.

Naʼvi pronouns encode clusivity.

Suffixes mark direct and indirect objects, as well as clusivity (the distinction between inclusive and exclusive we), number, location and affective emphasis.

Verbs are marked with subject prefixes that distinguish three persons (plus clusivity) and two tenses, Nonfuture and Future.

Several Polynesian languages, such as Samoan and Tongan, have clusivity with overt dual and plural suffixes in their pronouns.

Clusivity in the second person is conceptually simple but nonetheless if it exists is extremely rare, unlike clusivity in the first.