This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Dr Cysouw's investigation provides a clear account of how they work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, and language-relatedness.
This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Dr Cysouw's investigation provides a clear account of how they work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, and language-relatedness.
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. He wrote his doctoral dissertation (upon which this book is based) 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.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction: Objective, Definitions, Method and Some History * Part One: Person Marking * 2: One Among the Crowd: The Marking of Singular Participants * 3: Group Marking: Redefining Plurality in the Pronominal Domain * Part Two: Paradigmatic Structure * 4: The Diversity of the Core: A Survey of Patterns of Singular and Group Marking * 5: Compound Pronouns: Other Person Categories Disqualified * Part Three: Number Incorporated * 6: Cardinality: Redefining Number in the Pronominal Domain * 7: The Diversity of Restricted Groups: A Survey of Dual Person Marking * Part Four: Cognate Paradigms * 8: Connecting Paradigms: Person Paradigms Through Time and Space * 9: Cognate Paradigms Revisited: Connecting the Dual * 10: Finale: Summary and Prospects * References * List of Languages According to Genetic/Geographical distribution * Index of Names * Index of Languages * Index of Subjects
* 1: Introduction: Objective, Definitions, Method and Some History * Part One: Person Marking * 2: One Among the Crowd: The Marking of Singular Participants * 3: Group Marking: Redefining Plurality in the Pronominal Domain * Part Two: Paradigmatic Structure * 4: The Diversity of the Core: A Survey of Patterns of Singular and Group Marking * 5: Compound Pronouns: Other Person Categories Disqualified * Part Three: Number Incorporated * 6: Cardinality: Redefining Number in the Pronominal Domain * 7: The Diversity of Restricted Groups: A Survey of Dual Person Marking * Part Four: Cognate Paradigms * 8: Connecting Paradigms: Person Paradigms Through Time and Space * 9: Cognate Paradigms Revisited: Connecting the Dual * 10: Finale: Summary and Prospects * References * List of Languages According to Genetic/Geographical distribution * Index of Names * Index of Languages * Index of Subjects
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