Comparative Concept: person indexation (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
person indexation (str)
Typ | strategy |
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Alias(se) | person indexation |
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Definition
an indexical strategy in which the category of person is encoded in the index. Other categories, typically number and gender–class, may also be encoded in the index. Example: in Mam t-kamb' meeb'a 'the orphan's prize', the third person prefix t- on kamb' 'prize' indexes the possessor, who is also referred to by meeb'a 'orphan'. (Section 4.4.1)