LEADER 03973oam 2200649I 450 001 9910822893603321 005 20190503073433.0 010 $a0-262-33605-7 010 $a0-262-33604-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000926075 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4731338 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001665419 035 $a(OCoLC)962065596 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53729 035 $a(OCoLC)962063419$z(OCoLC)962049236$z(OCoLC)962065596$z(OCoLC)962438275$z(OCoLC)962841686 035 $a(OCoLC-P)962063419 035 $a(MaCbMITP)10583 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000926075 100 $a20161104d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aImpossible persons /$fDaniel Harbour 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (335 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aLinguistic inquiry monographs 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-262-52929-7 311 $a0-262-03473-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aA groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. 330 $a"Impossible persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work, Harbour establishes three core theses, one empirical, one theoretical, and one metatheoretical. Together, these redefine the data subsumed under the rubric of "person," simplify the feature inventory that a theory of person must posit, and restructure the metatheory in which feature theory as a whole resides. At its heart, Impossible Persons poses a simple question of the possible versus the actual: in how many ways could languages configure their person systems, in how many do they configure them, and what explains the size and shape of the shortfall? Harbour's empirical thesis--that the primary object of study for persons are partitions, not syncretisms--transforms a sea of data into a categorical problem of the attested and the absent. Positing, innovatively, that features denote actions, not predicates, he shows that two features alone generate all and only the attested systems. This apparently poor inventory yields rich explanatory dividends, covering the morphological composition of person, its interaction with number, its connection to space, and properties of its semantics and linearization. Moreover, the core properties of this approach are shared with Harbour's earlier work on number features. Jointly, these results establish an important metatheoretical corollary concerning the balance between richness of feature semantics and restrictiveness of feature inventories. This corollary holds deep implications for how linguists should approach feature theory in future"--Publisher's website. 410 0$aLinguistic inquiry monographs ;$v74. 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xPerson 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xNumber 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xPronoun 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xMorphosyntax 606 $aSemantics 606 $aUniversal grammar 610 $aLINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xPerson. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xNumber. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xPronoun. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xMorphosyntax. 615 0$aSemantics. 615 0$aUniversal grammar. 676 $a415/.5 700 $aHarbour$b Daniel$0322177 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822893603321 996 $aImpossible persons$93963530 997 $aUNINA