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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163130803321

Autore

Forchheimer Paul

Titolo

The Category of Person in Language / / Paul Forchheimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2014]

©1953

ISBN

3-11-156270-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2014]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Person

Grammar, Comparative and general - Pronoun

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued also as thesis, Columbia University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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