Chapter Person by other means

• Yazar: Baerman, Matthew (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Corbett, Greville G. (auth), Bakker, Dik (Editör), Haspelmath, Martin (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Konular: linguistics; Philosophy of language; Linguistic Typology; Person and Pronouns; Grammatical Alignment; Grammatical Voice
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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...