Datapoint Diu Indo-Portuguese/Alignment of case marking of personal pronouns

Unlike full NPs, pronouns reveal no animate/inanimate distinction when it comes to case-marking. Clauses containing pronominal arguments are therefore the clearest instances of the nominative-accusative alignment governing case-marking in Diu Indo-Portuguese: pronominal P arguments are case-marked, whereas both S and A arguments are not.

However, case assignment remains highly dependent on semantic considerations. As in the case of full NPs, pronominal A arguments can also be case-marked if they are taken to be experiencers of an event beyond their control.

Values

Accusative alignment

Example 39-115:
Yo nã sab.
Yo
1sg
nã
neg
sab.
know.npst
I don't know.

Source: Cardoso 2009: 193

Example 39-116:
El mem atəro a el.
El
3sg
mem
emph
atər-o
push-pst
a
acc
el.
3sg
HE pushed him.

Source: Cardoso 2009: 194

Confidence:
Very certain