The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking
Author:   Michael Cysouw (, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199254125


Pages:   390
Publication Date:   03 July 2003
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Author:   Michael Cysouw (, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.685kg
ISBN:  

9780199254125


ISBN 10:   0199254125
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   03 July 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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: Conclusion

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courageous and highly innovative approach to the paradigmatic architecture of personhood from a cross-linguistic perspective . . . The author has developed a highly stimulating way of handling and presenting cross-linguistic data, which helps the reader to safely navigate through the world of linguistic variation . . . * Wolfgang Schulze, The Linguist List *


courageous and highly innovative approach to the paradigmatic architecture of personhood from a cross-linguistic perspective ... The author has developed a highly stimulating way of handling and presenting cross-linguistic data, which helps the reader to safely navigate through the world of linguistic variation ... Wolfgang Schulze, The Linguist List


`impressive' Wolfgang Schulze, The Linguist List


Author Information

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. This book is a revised version of his doctoral dissertation, which was written 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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