Complementarity Between Lexis and Grammar in the System of Person

A Systemic Typological Approach

af Pin (School of Foreign Languages Wang

This book investigates the lexico-grammatical complementarity in language in its construal of person as a semantic system. Given the vast and wide spectrum of resources for expressing distinctions in the assignment of person roles in language, this book presents person-related system networks covering a rich range of semantic features, and studies the system of person in relation to other major semantic systems instead of regarding it as one isolated component of language parallel to gender, num... (Læs mere)