Reference grammars often set out the personal pronouns in paradigms similar to those of nouns...
Keywords: animacy hierarchy, associative, case, count?mass, database, inclusive?exclusive, inflection, minimal?augmented, number, paradigm, personal pronoun, plural, pronoun, reproducibility, suppletion, syncretism
06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterA systematic collection of problems and counterexamples is presented for predictions of patterns of relational marking on noun phrases in terms of a noun phrase hierarchy (also known as animacy hierarchy), as conceived of by Silverstein (1976) and others...
Keywords: accusative, agentivity, alignment, animacy, case, ergative, hierarchy, markedness, noun phrase hierarchy, person, personal pronoun
06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter