I don’t know how to handle this Linguistics question and need guidance.
In English, you say:
“She saw him” not “*Him saw she”
“I saw them” not “*Them saw I”.
1) Why do these English pronouns only seem to exist in certain positions? Hint: A complete answer will discuss both the morphological and the syntactic aspects of the sentence.
2) Imagine that in Anglish, people say “She saw he” and “He saw she”. In all of these cases, the first argument is the subject and the second argument is the object. What would this suggest about Anglish grammar?
3) Suppose that Anglish speakers say things like “You saw they” and “they saws you”. They also say things like “the dog eat the food” and “the dogs eats the food”. What does this seem to suggest about Anglish grammar?
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