PersonCambridge University Press, 2004 - 327 pages This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person, the second person, and the third person. Drawing on data from over 500 languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying this variation. She shows how person forms vary in substance, in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey, in how they are used in sentences and discourse, and in the way they function to convey social distinctions. By looking at different types of person forms in the grammatical and social contexts in which they are used, this book documents an underlying unity between them, arguing against the treatment of person markers based on arbitrary sets of morphological and syntactic properties. Clearly organized and accessibly written, it will be welcomed by students and scholars of linguistics, particularly those interested in grammatical categories and their use. |
Table des matières
1 | 1 |
2 | 14 |
3 | 67 |
The structure of person paradigms | 75 |
Person agreement | 120 |
The function of person forms | 173 |
Person forms and social deixis | 214 |
Person forms in a diachronic perspective | 246 |
List of languages in the sample | 282 |
References | 296 |
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accusative alignment adpositions analysis anaphoric animacy argument Australian language Austronesian language clauses clitics considered contrast coreference cross-linguistic dependent discourse discussed distribution ditransitive emphatic encoding English ergative alignment example first-person plural first-person singular grammaticalization Gumawana homophony honorific horizontal homophonies illustrated inalienable inclusive inclusive/exclusive inclusive/exclusive distinction independent forms independent person forms independent person markers inflection instance interpretation involving John language spoken Lavukaleve lexical NPs Linguistics logophoric Macushi Mixtec monotransitive morpho-phonological morphological nominal non-singular number opposition object occur Oceanic language Omotic languages opposed overt Papuan language pattern person affixes person agreement person agreement markers person clitics person hierarchy person paradigms person prefixes personal pronouns phonological Polish possessor predicates pronominal pronouns referents reflexive anaphor relevant second-person second-person plural second-person singular secundative alignment semantic SG PL stem subject prefixes suffixes syntactic functions third third-person third-person forms third-person markers third-person singular Tibeto-Burman language Trumai types typically typology Uradhi verb verbal