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"Impossible persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work, Harbour establishes three core theses, one empirical, one theoretical, and one metatheoretical. Together, these redefine the data subsumed under the rubric of "person," simplify the feature inventory that a theory of person must posit, and restructure the metatheory in which feature theor
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Harbour, Daniel
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262034739
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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