The Category of Person in Language / Paul Forchheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forchheimer, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Person.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Pronoun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CONTENTS

PREFACE

A. GENERAL DISCUSSION

B. TYPES OF PERSON PATTERNS

I. General Remarks

II. Languages with Morphological Plural of Pronouns

III. Languages without Morphological but with Lexical Plural, at least in the First Person

IV. Languages with Lexical and Morphological Plural in the First Person

V. Languages with Morphological or Lexical and Composite Plurals of the First Person

VI. Languages with Two Composite Forms for Inclusive and Exclusive Plural of First Person

VII. Languages with Variants of One Form Used to Express Inclusive and Exclusive Plural

VIII. Languages with Variants of Second Person Plural for Inclusive First Person Plural

IX. Languages with Complete Set of Pronouns Plus Composite Forms

X. Languages with less than Three Distinct Plural Forms

C. A NOTE ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF PATTERNS

D. SPECULATIVE REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN OF SOME FIRST PERSONAL PRONOUNS

Backmatter

Notes:

Issued also as thesis, Columbia University.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9783111562704

3111562700

OCLC:

907232963