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This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person, the second person, and the third person. Drawing on data from over 700 languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying this var...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person, the second person, and the third person. Drawing on data from over 700 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, in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey, in how they are used in sentences and discourse, and in the way they function to convey social distinctions. By looking at different types of person forms in the grammatical and social contexts in which they are used, this book documents an underlying unity between them, arguing against the treatment of person markers based on arbitrary sets of morphological and syntactic properties. Clearly organized and accessibly written, it will be welcomed by students and scholars of linguistics, particularly those interested in grammatical categories and their use. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 327 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-311) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780511215926 0511215924 9780511812729 0511812728 0511212321 9780511212321 1283329212 9781283329217 1107143152 9781107143159 0511210558 9780511210556 0511214138 9780511214134 9786613329219 6613329215 0511556934 9780511556937 |