Person (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Anna Siewierska

Person (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)



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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Page: 349
ISBN: 0521772141, 9780521772143

'Any naive expectation that person is a straightforward category of grammar, with few differences among languages, is quickly dispelled by the immense complexity of the data presented. ... [it contains] an enormous amount of information collated over years of painstaking consultation of grammars and presented for the first time. ... a goldmine of inspiration. ... Siewierska is to be congratulated on establishing the study of person as a unified, if highly complex, field within linguistics.' Folia Linguistica This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person (the speaker), the second person (the hearer), and the third person (neither the speaker nor the hearer). 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 (how large they are), in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey (e.g. gender, number, case), and in their use in sentences and discourse.

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