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Person

Person

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Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0521776694
ISBN13: 9780521776691
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 1 2004
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.77
Language: English
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).

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