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    Chapter Person by other means

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    Author(s)
    Baerman, Matthew
    Corbett, Greville G.
    Contributor(s)
    Bakker, Dik (editor)
    Haspelmath, Martin (editor)
    Collection
    European Research Council (ERC)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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 conflicting analyses of individual languages, and there are instances of intriguingly similar systems being anal-ysed differently, because of distinct traditions. Cross-linguistically there is a rela-tively short list of features which are genuinely morphosyntactic; that is, they are referred to by rules of syntax and by rules of inflectional morphology. Person is often such a feature, being referred to by rules of agreement, and being relevant to verbal inflection. Such morphosyntactic features are to be distinguished from purely morphological features, such as inflectional class, which allow general-izations across lexemes but which are not accessible to rules of syntax. While languages in which person is straightforwardly a morphosyntactic feature are numerous and well-known, we are concerned here with languages where its expression is bound up with that of another feature, namely gender, so that its status is far from certain. We consider several such instances, from different lin-guistic and geographical areas.
    Book
    Languages Across Boundaries: Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23705
    Keywords
    Linguistic Typology; Person and Pronouns; Grammatical Alignment; Grammatical Voice
    DOI
    10.1515/9783110331127.1
    ISBN
    9783110331035
    OCN
    1135848315
    Publisher
    De Gruyter
    Publisher website
    https://www.degruyter.com/
    Publication date and place
    Berlin/Boston, 2013
    Grantor
    • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council - 230268 - MORPHOLOGY Research grant informationFind all documents
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    linguistics
    Philosophy of language
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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