《人称范畴》无论是对人称范畴的语言比较还是单一语言的研究，都具有很高的参考价值。就国内而言，它对研究中国境内众多方言纷繁复杂的人称现象及其历史演化都会有直接的帮助。人称在语言学上指表示言谈角色的语法范畴，《人称范畴》可以说是语种基础最为广泛、探讨最为全面深入的一部专著。它以包含700多种语言的语种库为材料基础，很多结论都是在对这些语言的穷尽性观察和统计的基础上得出的，这提高了相关结论的可信性。
《人称范畴》是迄今为止第一部全面系统的研究人称范畴的著作，通过对七百多种语言中第一、二、三人称词作跨语言调查，作者比较其不同的表现，并发现不同的表现背后的原因。他还研究了人称词形式在语言中的使用情况，人称词之间的语义区别的性质，在句子和篇章中怎样使用及其不同的社会意义。通过调查人称形式的不同语法和其使用的语境，《人称范畴》鲜明反对了从形态和句法性质等任意性角度对人称词进行的研究。
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Person as a grammatical category
1.1.1 Person paradigms
1.1.2 First and second persons vs third person
1.2 The universality of person markers
1.3 The nature of this book
2 The typology of person forms
2.1 Morpho-phonological form
2.1.1 Independent forms
2.1.2 Dependent person markers
2.2 Syntactic function
2.2.1 Syntactic function and morpho-phonological form
2.2.2 The encoding of syntactic function
2.3 Discourse function
3 The structure of person paradigms
3.1 Fewer than three persons
3.2 Variation with respect to number
3.2.1 More than one person and the inclusive/exclusive distinction
3.2.2 Duals and larger numbers
3.2.3 Number and the person hierarchy
3.2.4 Towards a typology of paradigmatic structure
3.3 Variation in gender
3.3.1 Gender and the person hierarchy
3.3.2 Gender and number
3.3.3 Gender and the inclusive/exclusive distinction
3.4 Differences between paradigms
3.4.1 Independent w dependent paradigms
3.4.2 Differences between dependent forms
4 Person agreement
4.1 Anaphoric pronoun vs person agreement marker
4.2 The targets of person agreement
4.2.1 Predicates
4.2.2 Possessed nouns
4.2.3 Adpositions and other targets
4.3 The controllers of person agreement
4.3.1 The person hierarchy
4.3.2 The nominal hierarchy
4.3.3 The animacy hierarchy
4.3.4 The referential hierarchy
4.3.5 The focus hierarchy
4.4 The markers of person agreement
4.4.1 Person agreement and morpho-phonological form
4.4.2 The location of person markers
5 The function of person forms
5.1 Cognitive discourse analysis and referent accessibility
5.2 Referent accessibility and the distribution of person forms in discourse
5.2.1 Entity saliency
5.2.2 Unity
5.3 Accessibility and the intra-sentential distribution of person forms
5.3.1 Chomskys Binding Theory
5.3.2 Referent accessibility and BT
5.3.3 The avoid pronoun constraint
5.4 Beyond referent accessibility
5.4.1 Long-distance reflexives, logophoricity and point of view
5.4.2 Person marker vs other referential expression and speaker empathy
5.5 Person markers and impersonalization
6 Person forms and social deixis
6.1 Alternation in semantic categories
6.1.1 Variation in number
6.1.2 Variation in person
6.1.3 The use of reflexives
6.2 Special honorific person markers
6.3 Omission of person markers
7 Person forms in a diachronic perspective
7.1 The sources of person markers
7.1.1 Lexical sources
7.1.2 Demonstratives
7.1.3 Other person markers
7.1.4 Conjugated verbal forms
7.1.5 Other grammatical markers
7.2 From independent person marker to syntactic agreement marker
7.2.1 Three accounts of the early stages of the grammaticalization of person markers
7.2.2 Syntactic agreement markers
7.3 Language externally driven changes in person marking
7.3.1 Borrowing of person markers
7.3.2 Loss of person agreement
Appendix 1. List of languages in the sample by macro-area
Appendix 2. Genetic classification of languages cited in the text
References
Author index
Language index
Subject index
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