Person (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Figures......Page 14
Tables......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
Abbreviations......Page 19
1.1 Person as a grammatical category......Page 23
1.1.1 Person paradigms......Page 26
1.1.2 First and second persons vs third person......Page 27
1.2 The universality of person markers......Page 30
1.3 The nature of this book......Page 36
2.1 Morpho-phonological form......Page 38
2.1.1 Independent forms......Page 39
2.1.2 Dependent person markers......Page 43
2.1.2.1 Zero forms......Page 44
2.1.2.2 Bound forms and clitics......Page 46
2.1.2.3 Weak forms......Page 56
2.2.1.1 Independent person markers......Page 62
2.2.1.2 Dependent person markers and argument prominence......Page 64
2.2.2.1 The expression of morphological case marking......Page 69
2.2.2.2 Morphological alignment......Page 72
2.2.2.3 Morphological alignment and person......Page 85
2.3 Discourse function......Page 89
3.1 Fewer than three persons......Page 97
3.2 Variation with respect to number......Page 101
3.2.1 More than one person and the inclusive/exclusive distinction......Page 104
3.2.2 Duals and larger numbers......Page 110
3.2.3 Number and the person hierarchy......Page 114
3.2.4 Towards a typology of paradigmatic structure......Page 118
3.3 Variation in gender......Page 125
3.3.1 Gender and the person hierarchy......Page 126
3.3.2 Gender and number......Page 129
3.3.3 Gender and the inclusive/exclusive distinction......Page 132
3.4.1 Independent vs dependent paradigms......Page 134
3.4.2 Differences between dependent forms......Page 140
4 Person agreement......Page 142
4.1 Anaphoric pronoun vs person agreement marker......Page 143
4.2 The targets of person agreement......Page 149
4.2.1.1 Intransitive predicates......Page 151
4.2.1.2 Transitive and ditransitive predicates......Page 155
4.2.2 Possessed nouns......Page 160
4.2.3 Adpositions and other targets......Page 167
4.3 The controllers of person agreement......Page 170
4.3.1 The person hierarchy......Page 171
4.3.2 The nominal hierarchy......Page 173
4.3.3 The animacy hierarchy......Page 176
4.3.4 The referential hierarchy......Page 178
4.3.5 The focus hierarchy......Page 181
4.4.1 Person agreement and morpho-phonological form......Page 184
4.4.2 The location of person markers......Page 185
4.4.2.1 Prefixes vs suffixes......Page 186
4.4.2.2 The order of person agreement affixes relative to each other......Page 188
4.4.2.3 The order of person agreement markers relative to other grammatical markers......Page 193
5 The function of person forms......Page 195
5.1 Cognitive discourse analysis and referent accessibility......Page 196
5.2.1 Entity saliency......Page 200
5.2.2 Unity......Page 205
5.3.1 Chomsky’s Binding Theory......Page 207
5.3.2 Referent accessibility and BT......Page 213
5.3.3 The avoid pronoun constraint......Page 220
5.4 Beyond referent accessibility......Page 222
5.4.1 Long-distance reflexives, logophoricity and point of view......Page 223
5.4.2 Person marker vs other referential expression and speaker empathy......Page 229
5.5 Person markers and impersonalization......Page 232
6 Person forms and social deixis......Page 236
6.1 Alternation in semantic categories......Page 237
6.1.1 Variation in number......Page 238
6.1.2 Variation in person......Page 244
6.1.3 The use of reflexives......Page 246
6.2 Special honorific person markers......Page 250
6.3 Omission of person markers......Page 257
7 Person forms in a diachronic perspective......Page 268
7.1.1 Lexical sources......Page 269
7.1.2 Demonstratives......Page 271
7.1.3 Other person markers......Page 273
7.1.4 Conjugated verbal forms......Page 277
7.1.5 Other grammatical markers......Page 282
7.2 From independent person marker to syntactic agreement marker......Page 283
7.2.1.1 NP detachment......Page 285
7.2.1.2 Accessibility Theory......Page 286
7.2.1.3 Frequency-driven morphologization......Page 288
7.2.2 Syntactic agreement markers......Page 290
7.3 Language externally driven changes in person marking......Page 295
7.3.1 Borrowing of person markers......Page 296
7.3.2 Loss of person agreement......Page 299
South-East Asia and Oceania 62......Page 304
South America 60......Page 305
NIGER-KORDOFANIAN......Page 306
AFRO-ASIATIC......Page 307
INDO-HITTITE......Page 308
CHUKCHI-KAMCHATKAN......Page 309
AUSTRIC......Page 310
INDO-PACIFIC......Page 312
AUSTRALIAN......Page 313
AMERIND......Page 314
CREOLES......Page 317
References......Page 318
Author index......Page 334
Language index......Page 338
Subject index......Page 346