Re: Fourth Person
| From: | Christopher Palmer <reid@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 4, 1998, 21:30 |
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> 3p = anyone else who is present
> 4p = anyone else who is not present
'Presence', like 'animacy' or any other semantic feature, relates only
arbitrarily to 'person-ness' (function as a speaker/hearer in the
discourse).
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