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dc.contributor.authorBaerman, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorCorbett, Greville G.
dc.contributor.editorBakker, Dik
dc.contributor.editorHaspelmath, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-19 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-07 16:47:06
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T09:26:27Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T09:26:27Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier1006439
dc.identifierOCN: 1135848315en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23705
dc.description.abstractAs 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of languageen_US
dc.subject.otherLinguistic Typology
dc.subject.otherPerson and Pronouns
dc.subject.otherGrammatical Alignment
dc.subject.otherGrammatical Voice
dc.titleChapter Person by other means
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.1515/9783110331127.1
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3
oapen.relation.isPartOfBook68e11b33-3fb7-44cd-8022-61566ffc2937
oapen.relation.isFundedBy7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79
oapen.relation.isbn9783110331035
oapen.collectionEuropean Research Council (ERC)
oapen.place.publicationBerlin/Boston
oapen.grant.number230268
oapen.grant.acronymMORPHOLOGY
oapen.identifier.ocn1135848315


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