GRAMMATICALPERSON

Grammatical person

Grammatical person, in linguistics, is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant in an event; typically the distinction is between the speaker, the addressee, and others. Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of personal pronouns. It also frequently affects verbs, sometimes nouns, and possessive relationships.

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grammatical person

Noun

  1. A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is referring; implemented in most languages by a variety of pronouns, and in inflected languages by variation in word endings.


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