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Complementarity Between Lexis and Grammar in the System of Person - A Systemic Typological Approach (Paperback)
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Complementarity Between Lexis and Grammar in the System of Person - A Systemic Typological Approach (Paperback)
Series: China Perspectives
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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. It also 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, number, case, etc.
Systemic features of person are in turn realized by lexicogrammar,
whose components, lexis and grammar form a relationship of
complementarity in the process of transforming human experience
into meaning. Person-related meaning can be either realized by
lexical means, i.e. entity, process, quality, or grammatical means,
i.e. pronouns, clitics, affixes, zero forms. Besides, such meaning
is also found to be realized at some indeterminate areas along the
lexis-grammar continuum. A special feature of this book is that it
observes the lexicalization and grammaticalization of person based
on evidence from a variety of languages. Readers will be presented
a comprehensive look into the meaning of person and will be
encouraged to reflect on its realization in their own languages.
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