| In many logophoric languages, a complementizer of this kind does seem to play an important role in logophoric marking. |
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| With the above background information in place, let us now turn to logophoric pronouns in African languages. |
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| In Igbo, for example, the logophoric pronoun has only one form, and can occur only as subject. |
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| Languages also vary with respect to the grammatical functions a logophoric pronoun can perform. |
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| Thus, Clements reports that in Ewe all logophoric constructions contain the complementizer be. |
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| By contrast, Ewe, Gbandili, an Admawa-Ubangi language, and Ngwo, a Grassfields language, are languages whose logophoric pronouns have both singular and plural forms. |
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| Finally, in languages like Lele, an East Chadic language, and Yg Dii, an Eastern Adamawa language, logophoric marking can be done in all three persons. |
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