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Zusatztext courageous and highly innovative approach to the paradigmatic architecture of personhood from a cross-linguistic perspective . . . The author has developed a highly stimulating way of handling and presenting cross-linguistic data, which helps the reader to safely navigate through the world of linguistic variation . . . Informationen zum Autor Michael Cysouw is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin and affiliated to the Department of English at the Free University of Berlin. This book is a revised version of his doctoral dissertation, which was written at the Department of General Linguistics of the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The Association for Linguistic Typology prized this dissertation with its 2001 junior award. Klappentext This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Michael Cysouw develops a new framework for the typology of person marking based on the rejection of the notion of plurality for its analysis. Zusammenfassung Investigates paradigms of person - both independent pronouns as well as bound person marking. Based on empirical and theoretical grounds, the author argues that the notion 'number' has to be redefined to deal with the cross-linguistic variation of person marking. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: Objective, definitions, method and some history Part One: Person marking 2: One among the crowd: The marking of singular participants 3: Group marking: Redefining plurality in the pronominal domain Part Two: Paradigmatic structure 4: The diversity of the core: A survey of patterns of singular and group marking 5: Compound pronouns: Other person categories disqualified Part Three: Number incorporated 6: Cardinality: Redefining number in the pronominal domain 7: The diversity of restricted groups: A survey of dual person marking Part Four: Cognate paradigms 8: Connecting paradigms: Person paradigms through time and space 9: Cognate paradigms revisited: Connecting the dual 10: Conclusion ...
