Features Of Person
Download Features Of Person full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Features Of Person ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Features of Person
Author | : Peter Ackema |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0262535610 |
Download Features of Person Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a “person space” at the heart of every pronominal expression. 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 expression. They map the journey of person features in grammar, from semantics through syntax to the system of morphological realization. Such an in-depth cross-modular study allows the development of a theory in which assumptions made about the behavior of a given feature in one module bear on possible assumptions about its behavior in other modules. The authors' new theory of person, built on a sparse set of two privative person features, delivers a typologically adequate inventory of persons; captures the semantics of personal pronouns, impersonal pronouns, and R-expressions; accounts for aspects of their syntactic behavior; and explains patterns of person-related syncretism in the realization of pronouns and inflectional endings. The authors discuss numerous observations from the literature, defend a number of theoretical choices that are either new or not generally accepted, and present novel empirical findings regarding phenomena as different as honorifics, number marking, and unagreement.
Features of Person Related Books
Pages: 383
Pages: 383
Pages: 554
Pages: 836
Pages: 417