Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking

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.

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• Authors: Michael Cysouw, Michael (Max Planck Institute for Evolutio Cysouw, Michael (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Cysouw, Cysouw Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2003
• EAN: 9780199254125
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925412-5
• No. of pages: 390
• Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and; Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc