The Componential Paradigm of Hanunóo Pronominal Set (from Conklin 1962; taken from David Kronenfeld's Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers)
Full ref of a reprint: Conklin, Harold C. 1968. LEXICOGRAPHICAL TREATMENT OF FOLK TAXONOMIES. In: Fishman, J. ed. Readings in the Sociology of Language. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 414-433. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805376.414
The pronouns in question:
dah "they"
kuh "I"
mih "we"
muh "you"
tah "we two"
tam "we all"
yah "he, she"
yuh "you all"
Slightly complex, but I believe it's using Componential Semantics to account for the pronoun categories in Hanunó'o, a language spoken in the Phillipines, as an alternative to the traditional 1st-2nd-3rd person. The parameters are binary features (components): Two features regardinng whether the referent (group) includes the speaker (s) or hearer (h) - and then minimality (m), which the article does not seem to define explicitly, but the minimal version seems to be the one that contains "as few as possible" within the possible group, which essentials boils down to singulars and the dual "we two" . A letter with a line over means "not included" (e.g. s̅ means "excluding speaker").
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