This book is dedicated to Anna Siewierska, who died, far too young,
in 2011. It contains 15 contributions by 20 linguists who may be
counted among the foremost scholars in the field of linguistic
typology. All of these articles discuss a topic that is prominent
in Anna's work, whose journal articles and monographs on the
passive, on word order, and on the category of person are standard
literature in these respective fields. Mindful of Anna's last
monograph, Person, the majority of the contributions in this volume
discuss free and bound person forms, argument indexing, reference
tracking systems, impersonals, and related issues, such as
suppletion and incompleteness in person paradigms, the origin of
referential systems, dependent versus independent marking, and
referential hierarchies. Other topics are grammatical alignment,
grammatical voice, ditransitives, and word order. Most of the
contributions take a broad, typological perspective. Others give a
more in depth treatment, based on data from a specific language,
notably Spanish, Russian, Mandinka, and Mohawk. The book contains a
complete bibliography of Anna Siewierska's linguistic production.
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