Chapter Person by other means

• Main Author: Baerman, Matthew (auth)
• Other Authors: Corbett, Greville G. (auth), Bakker, Dik (Editor), Haspelmath, Martin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Subjects: linguistics; Philosophy of language; Linguistic Typology; Person and Pronouns; Grammatical Alignment; Grammatical Voice
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

As Anna Siewierska notes (2004: 8) 'the universality of person as a grammatical category is sometimes called into question.' And indeed, in some languages, an interesting minority, it is not obvious whether there is a person feature as part of the morphosyntactic system or not. We find con...