Person

Informationen zum Autor Anna Siewierska is Professor of Linguistics and Human Communication at Lancaster University. Klappentext Drawing on data from over five hundred languages! Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages! and examines the factors underlying variation. Siewierska demonstrates 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. The textbook covers the grammatical category of person! which includes the first person (the speaker)! the second person (the hearer)! and the third person (neither the speaker nor the hearer). Zusammenfassung This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person. Drawing on data from over 700 languages! it compares the use of person across different languages! examines the factors underlying this variation! and looks at different types of person forms in the grammatical and social contexts in which they are used. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The typology of person forms; 3. The structure of person paradigms; 4. Person agreement; 5. The function of person forms; 6. Person forms and social deixis; 7. Person forms in a diachronic perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Siewierska, Anna (Lancaster University) Siewierska
• Assisted by: S. R. Anderson (Editor), J. Bresnan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2004
• EAN: 9780521772143
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77214-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures