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"This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Michael Cysouw develops a new framework for the typology of person marking based on the rejection of the notion of plurality for its analysis. When a mother says ""Mummy is going to say goodnight now"", Mummy is the person marker in a way that in English is confined to motherese but which is used more commonly in some other languages and may also be characteristic of much earlier forms. Dr Cysouw divides the person markers of 400 languages into paradigms. He considers how the structure of these person paradigms relates to their function. His investigation provides a clear account of how person markers work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, language-relatedness, and the interfaces between discourse, syntax, and semantics. The combination of a typological and a comparative approach results in the first outline of a cognitive map of the paradigmatic structure of person marking."

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Author:   Michael Cysouw (, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.587kg
ISBN:  

9780199554263

ISBN 10:   0199554269
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   29 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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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.

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