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Person is an inflectional dimension used mostly on verbal predicates, possessed nouns and adpositions to denote the speech act participants speaker and hearer and their contrast with non-speech act particiants.
Inflectional categories
See also
Origin
The term person and the names for the three main categories (first, second, third) go back to the ancient Greek grammarians.
Reference
- Siewierska, Anna. 2003. Person. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Other languages
French personne German Person (de)
