The term nominal person is used here to refer to formal means of indicating personhood on nominal expressions, i.e. the inclusion/exclusion of the author and/or addressee of an utterance in the reference set of the expression.
This includes phenomena like adnominal pronoun constructions (e.g. English "we linguists"), clitic person markers and unagreement phenomena.
This seminar will be concerned with crosslinguistic variation in expressions of nominal person and issues concerning the collection of corresponding empirical data (native speaker elicitation, grammatical descriptions, corpus studies).
Participants should produce a small empirical study on a related phenomenon in a language/language family of their choice.
Semester: WiTerm 2023/24