Person and number in pronouns: A feature-geometric analysis

被引：382

作者：

Harley, H ^{[1
]}

Ritter, E

机构：

[1] Univ Arizona, Dept Linguist, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[2] Univ Calgary, Dept Linguist, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

来源：

LANGUAGE | 2002年 / 78卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1353/lan.2002.0158

中图分类号：

H0 [语言学];

学科分类号：

030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;

摘要：

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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页码：482 / 526

页数：45