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Travail collectif entre les membres du projet de Lyon (Françoise Rose, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Egidio Marsico, Paola Granado Columba, Windy Daviet, Noé Gasparini) et les membres de Berkeley (Lev Michael et Zachary O'Hagan)

The paper reconstructs two series of core argument pronouns to Proto-Takanan: a set of first-position independent pronouns (P1) used to express contrast and a set of second-position weak or enclitic pronouns (P2) used to express accessible referents. In the reconstructed P1 set, there are both ergative and absolutive forms of the pronouns. The P2 weak or enclitic pronoun sets of the modern languages are historically derived from P1 independent pronouns, showing phonological and morphological reductions which result in loss of case distinctions found in the P1 forms.