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Features of Person : From the Inventory of Persons to their Morphological Realization /

This book offers a significant reconceptualization of the person system in natural language. The authors, leading scholars in syntax and its interfaces, propose that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ackema, Peter, 1965- (Autor), Neeleman, Ad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1.Person: A To-Do List
  • 1.1.Introduction
  • 1.2.The Inventory of Persons and Their Interpretation
  • 1.3.Agreement for Person
  • 1.4.Syntactic Restrictions on Agreement
  • 1.5.The Realization of Person Features
  • 1.6.Maximal Encoding
  • 1.7.Summary
  • 2.Person Features: Deriving the Inventory of Persons
  • 2.1.Introduction
  • 2.2.The Basic Proposal
  • 2.3.The Interpretation of Person in Discourse
  • 2.4.The Third Person as Default
  • 2.5.Effects of Maximal Encoding
  • 2.6.Honorifics
  • 2.7.Consequences for the Morphosyntax of PRS
  • 2.8.Bound Pronouns
  • 2.9.Conclusion
  • 3.Interactions between Person and Number
  • 3.1.Introduction
  • 3.2.Two Types of Number System
  • 3.3.Number in Pronouns and Associative Plurals
  • 3.4.Conclusion
  • 4.Impersonal Pronouns
  • 4.1.Introduction
  • 4.2.Overview
  • 4.3.Generic and Arbitrary Readings of Plural Pronouns
  • 4.4.Dedicated Impersonal Pronouns: IMP-2
  • 4.5.Generic Second Person Singular Pronouns
  • Note continued: 4.6.Dedicated Impersonal Pronouns: IMP-1
  • 4.7.Why Inclusive Impersonal Pronouns Are human
  • 4.8.Conclusion
  • 5.The Symmetric Nature of Agreement
  • 5.1.Agreement: Symmetric or Asymmetric?
  • 5.2.Feature Spreading
  • 5.3.Referential Unagreement
  • 5.4.Quant ideational Unagreement
  • 5.5.The Link between Unagreement and Pro Drop
  • 5.6.Conclusion
  • 6.Syntactic Restrictions on Agreement
  • 6.1.Introduction
  • 6.2.Agreement and the Theory of Syntactic Dependencies
  • 6.3.Syntactic Agreement versus Restrictor Agreement
  • 6.4.Agreement: Upward and Downward
  • 6.5.The Domain of Feature Spreading
  • 6.6.Intervention Effects
  • 6.7.Conclusion
  • 7.The Morphological Realization of Person
  • 7.1.Introduction
  • 7.2.Patterns of Syncretism
  • 7.3.Accounting for Person Syncretisms
  • 7.4.Shifts in Person Syncretism in Dutch
  • 7.5.Conclusion
  • 8.Conclusion.