Person and Number in Pronouns: A Feature-Geometric Analysis  

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Harley, Heidi ; Ritter, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 78 no. 3 (2002), page 482-526.
Fulltext: Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 482-526.pdf (871.83KB)

Isi artikel

The set of person and number features necessary to characterize the pronominal paradigms of the world's languages is highly constrained, and their interaction is demonstrably systematic. We develop a geometric representation of morphosyntactic features which provides a principled explanation for the observed restrictions on these paradigms. The organization of this geometry represents the grammaticalization of fundamental cognitive categories, such as reference, plurality, and taxonomy. We motivate the geometry through the analysis of pronoun paradigms in a broad range of genetically distinct languages.*

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