{"product_id":"9780199554263","title":"The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants. Michael Cysouw develops a new framework for the typology of person marking based on the rejection of the notion of plurality for its analysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a mother says \"Mummy is going to say goodnight now\", Mummy is the person marker in a way that in English is confined to motherese but which is used more commonly in some other languages and may also be characteristic of much earlier forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Cysouw divides the person markers of 400 languages into paradigms. He considers how the structure of these person paradigms relates to their function. His investigation provides a clear account of how person markers work syntactically, pragmatically, and semantically as well as giving fresh insights into aspects of linguistic change, language-relatedness, and the interfaces between discourse, syntax, and semantics. The combination of a typological and a comparative approach results in the first outline of a cognitive map of the paradigmatic structure of person marking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011018899696,"sku":"9780199554263","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199554263_p0.jpg?v=1763670034","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199554263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}