Person |
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| Author:
| Siewierska, Anna |
| Series title: | Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-81272-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $520.00 |
Book Description:
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This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person (the speaker), the second person (the hearer), and the third person (neither the speaker nor the hearer). Drawing on data from over 500 languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying this variation. She shows how person forms vary in substance (how large they are), in the nature of the semantic distinctions they...
More DescriptionThis textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person (the speaker), the second person (the hearer), and the third person (neither the speaker nor the hearer). Drawing on data from over 500 languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying this variation. She shows 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.