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| + | this term is used to refer to number of participants and also their nature. In most languages there is first person (speaker or a group with the speaker), second person (person speaker is addressing), third person (other people or objects). In Romance languages there is also the difference between male and female. There are other distinctions in other languages between ideas such informal vs. formal, definite vs. indefinite and inclusive (including the speaker) and exclusive (not including the speaker). | ||
| − | ===External Links | + | ==References== |
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| + | Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997. | ||
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| + | ==External Links== | ||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person | ||
[[Category:Technical Definitions]] | [[Category:Technical Definitions]] | ||
[[Category:Morphology]] | [[Category:Morphology]] | ||
Revision as of 16:17, 13 November 2009
this term is used to refer to number of participants and also their nature. In most languages there is first person (speaker or a group with the speaker), second person (person speaker is addressing), third person (other people or objects). In Romance languages there is also the difference between male and female. There are other distinctions in other languages between ideas such informal vs. formal, definite vs. indefinite and inclusive (including the speaker) and exclusive (not including the speaker).
References
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.
