On 1/28/2018 6:30 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:
HolQeD 8:4 (p. 6-10) says
It is also possible (though the Sakrej folks tend not to do this) to use the full pronoun plus locative noun construction with the directional nouns: *jIH chan* "east of me" (literally <I area eastward>). There is a slight meaning difference between *jIH chan*, using the full pronoun, and *chanwIj*, using the possessive suffix, however. The construction with the full pronoun emphasize the pronoun (in this case "I," the speaker him-herself) as the reference point; the construction with the pronominal suffix is more neutral. Thus, *chanwIj* is <east of me, east of where I am, east of here> but *jIH chan* is <east of ME, to MY east>.
Very good. I'd forgotten that bit from the /HolQeD/ article. Of course, this prompts the question of whether "area eastward" is somehow inherently different than "area above"... -- SuStel http://trimboli.name