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Understanding Inclusives
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Даниэль М. А.
The paper considers the place of inclusives within the system of personal reference. I suggest a model of the pronominal person/number categories based on the notion of representative plurality and locutive hierarchies. The paper explains the presence of an inclusive as a consequence of {Speaker = Addressee} hierarchy (as opposed to {Speaker > Addressee} hierarchy underlying non-inclusive languages). I then proceed to the few cases where the third possible option {Addressee > Speaker} is applied. The approach suggests that the traditional classification of inclusives as first person plurals is a misinterpretation resulting from over-generalizing the non-inclusive model of pronominal reference. A consistent analysis of the notion of person makes it obvious that the inclusive is a separate person.
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английский
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Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005