Features of person : from the inventory of persons to their morphological realization / Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman.
2018
P240.85 .A35 2018eb
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Title
Features of person : from the inventory of persons to their morphological realization / Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman.
Author
Ackema, Peter, 1965- author.
ISBN
9780262347365 (electronic bk.)
0262347369 (electronic bk.)
9780262038195
0262038196
9780262535618
0262535610
0262347369 (electronic bk.)
9780262038195
0262038196
9780262535618
0262535610
Published
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
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Call Number
P240.85 .A35 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
415/.5
Summary
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.
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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.
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Neeleman, Ad, author.
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