Features of person : from the inventory of persons to their morphological realization /
Ackema, Peter,1965-author.
Neeleman, Ad,author.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-349)and index.
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.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general
Generative grammar.
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general
Linguistic inquiry monographs.