| Person Contributor(s): Siewierska, Anna (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511812728 ISBN-13: 9780511812729 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $494.00 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 415 |
| Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on data from over five hundred languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, and examines the factors underlying variation. Siewierska demonstrates how person forms vary in substance (how large they are), in the nature of the semantic distinctions they convey (e.g., gender, number, case), and in their use in sentences and discourse. The textbook covers the grammatical category of person, which includes the first person (the speaker), the second person (the hearer), and the third person (neither the speaker nor the hearer). |
Contributor Bio(s): Siewierska, Anna: - Anna Siewierska is Professor of Linguistics and Human Communication at Lancaster University. |