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	Person - FrathWiki
		Grammatical person, in linguistics, is used for the grammatical categories a language uses to describe the relationship between the speaker and the persons or things she is talking about.
		The personal pronouns "I" and "we" are said to be in the first person.
		This person is traditionally defined to be what is spoken of or anything that is not first or second person.
	wiki.frath.net /Person (649 words)

	Grammatical person - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others.
		In literature, person is used to describe the viewpoint from which the narrative is presented.
		Text-based interactive fiction conventionally has description written in the second person (though exceptions exist), telling the character what she or he is seeing and doing.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Grammatical_person (778 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Grammatical person
		Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and others.
		Any person place or thing other than the speaker and the addressed is referred to in the third person.
		The term fourth person is also sometimes used for the category of indefinite or generic referents, that work like one in English phrases such as "one should be prepared", when the grammar treats them differently from ordinary third-person forms.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Grammatical_person (0 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Grammatical person
		The personal pronouns "I" and "we" are said to be in the first person.
		The personal pronoun "you" is said to be in the second person.
		In many languages, the verb takes a form dependent on this person and whether it is sigular or plural.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/gr/Grammatical_person (106 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for grammatician
		A grammatical distinction, in which such PARTS OF SPEECH as nouns, adjectives, and determiners are marked as MASCULINE and FEMININE (as in French and Spanish), or masculine, feminine, and NEUTER (as in German, Latin, and Greek).
		Gender marking may be natural, with linguistic markers of gender corresponding to real-world gender, or purely grammatical, with markers of gender in part semantically based and in part semantically arbitrary.
		In classical Greek, grammatical reduplication serves to form the perfect of the verb, by means of a prefixed syllable that repeats the initial consonant: lū́o I...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=grammatician (566 words)

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		Any person place or thing other than the speaker and the addressed is referred to in the third person.
		By contrast, Interlingua uses a single verb form for the three persons: es for is, am, and are, ha for has and have, and so on.
		Some languages, the best-known examples being Algonquian languages, divide the category of third person into two parts: proximate for a more topical third person, and obviative for a less topical third person.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=grammatical_person (497 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Grammatical
		Conceptual and grammatical characteristics of argument alternations: the case of decausative verbs *.
		Grammatical Morphology Deficits in Spanish-Speaking Children With Specific Language Impairment.
		The third grammatical treatise and Ole Worm's Literatura Runica.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Grammatical (996 words)

	Glossary of Grammatical Terms
		a grammatical construction in which two typically adjacent nouns referring to the same person or thing stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence.
		asserting that the person or thing represented by the grammatical subject is subjected to or affected by the action represented by the verb.
		The singular prounouns in English that are first person, second person, and third person are respectively "I", "you", and any of "he", "she", or "it" -- although it may seem weird for "it" to have a person associated with it (namely, third).
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /fun/welsh/Glossary.html (2316 words)

	HLW: Appendices: Glossary
		Grammatical: describing a phrase or sentence which could be produced by a speaker of a given dialect or language and does not contain a speech error.
		Personal pronoun: a word referring to an object in terms of whether it is (or includes) the Speaker or the Hearer.
		Person: a grammatical category expressing whether a referent is (or includes) the Speaker (first person), the Hearer (second person), or neither the Speaker nor the Hearer (third person).
	www.iub.edu /~hlw/Appendices/glossary.html (2110 words)

	The Catholic Biblical Association of America (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many biblical passages are inconsistent in grammatical person, that is, alternating between second person singular or plural ("youþ and third person singular ("heþ).
		Changes from the third person singular to the third person plural are allowed in individual cases where the sense of the original text is universal.
		Normally the neuter third person singular or the third person plural pronoun is used when referring to the People of God, Israel, the Church, the Body of Christ, etc., unless their antecedents clearly are a masculine or feminine metaphor, for instance, the reference to the Church as the "Bride of Christ" or "Mother" (cf.
	cba.cua.edu /crit.cfm (2421 words)

	Greek Verbs (Shorter Definitions)
		Each grammatical person (First, Second, and Third) can be either singular or plural in number.
		Grammatical voice indicates whether the subject is the performer of the action of the verb (active voice), or the subject is the recipient of the action (passive voice).
		The aspect of the grammatical "mood" of a verb has to do with the statement's relationship to reality.
	www.ntgreek.org /learn_nt_greek/verbs1.htm (2210 words)

	Person - Cambridge University Press
		In the case of the first and second persons, the grammatical category of person does not simply express the speaker and addressee respectively, but rather the participant or discourse roles of speaker and addressee.
		In Lardil, in the dual and plural, one set of person forms is used for persons who belong to the same generation level or are two levels apart, and a different set of forms for persons one or three generations apart.
		Although the number of distinct person forms in the two paradigms is actually the same, seven (due to the homophony between the second and third persons in both the dual and plural, in the case of the subject prefixes), they differ radically in their internal structure.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521772141&ss=exc (3572 words)

	grammatical - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Early grammatical study appears to have gone hand in hand with efforts to understand archaic writings.
		Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of...
		In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (regular alteration according to rules of grammar).
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=grammatical (162 words)

	We - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In the public situations in which it is used, the monarch or other dignitary is typically speaking, not in his own proper person, but as leader of a nation or institution.
		Nevertheless, the habit of referring to leaders in the plural has influenced the grammar of several languages, in which plural forms tend to be perceived as deferential and more polite than singular forms.
		Here, the writer has once more cast himself or herself in the role of spokesman: either for the media institution who employs him, or more generally on behalf of the party or body of citizens who agree with the commentary.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/We (709 words)

	Fourth Person? Fifth Person? Grammatical Person and Marketing \| The Marketing Technology Blog
		When we look at grammatical person, writers can write about I, we, you, or they.
		The opportunity for digital and database marketing is that their is a plausible “Fourth” or “Fifth” person.
		That is, Fourth Person may be allowing the reader to interact with the writer.
	www.douglaskarr.com /2006/07/01/fourth-person-fifth-person-grammatical-person-and-marketing (516 words)

	Segmentation and beyond: strategies for productivity in language development
		For children to show that they have mastered patterns for combining words and grammatical markers in their language there must be evidence that they can form multi-word structures that they have not already heard, and that they can use the grammatical markers of their language in appropriate contexts.
		All the grammatical and ungrammatical progressive utterances in the English child's corpus and all the grammatical and ungrammatical utterances-final infinitives in the German child's corpus were analysed.
		All verbal constructs produced by the three children were examined for (1) uses of PERSON marking on the inflectional suffixes of verbs, (2) uses of overt noun phrases and pronominal subjects, (3) uses of noun phrase objects, and (4) uses of PERSON in pronominal/clitic objects.
	www.isisweb.org /ICIS2000Program/web_pages/group325.html (1603 words)

	GRAMMATICAL PERSON FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The personal pronouns ''I'' and ''we'' are said to be in the first person.
		The personal pronoun ''you'' is in the second person.
		The term ''fourth person'' is also sometimes used for the category of indefinite or generic referents, that work like ''one'' in English phrases such as "one should be prepared", when the grammar treats them differently from ordinary third-person forms.
	www.galerienyc.com /grammatical_person (786 words)

	MOL\I : THE PERSONAIC NATURE OF LANGUAGE
		Persons are able to relate to the non-human world by virtue of their ability to assume the proper persona.
		Even as tanmai is the speaker in all language events regardless of the grammatical person ascribable to them, munnilai is the axiomatic listener in all language events.
		To recapitulate, one or more persons assume specific social personae (which are usually social roles like motherhood or guruhood etc.) and the linguistic personae known as speaker (tanmai) and listener (munnilai or patarkkai).
	www.angelfire.com /nd/nirmaldasan/moli.html (2899 words)

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		Person is the grammatical encoding of the number and nature of the participants in a situation.
		A personal pronoun is a pronoun that expresses a distinction of person deixis (Mish et al.
		A relative pronoun is a pronoun that marks a relative clause, functions grammatically within the relative clause, and is coreferential to the word modified by the relative clause (Crystal 1997:329).
	emeld.org /gold (9546 words)

	Twisted morality/sex vs.violence : Fool Moon
		I would say that domestic violence is personal but not intimate, and there is a difference, in fact all violence may be viewed as having a personal nature, but sex goes beyond personal, it is intimate.
		Concerning a particular person and his or her private business, interests, or activities: I have something personal to tell you.
		Aimed pointedly at the aspects of a person, especially in a critical or hostile manner: an uncalled-for, highly personal remark.
	foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=181838 (279 words)

	personal - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the personal pronoun.
		a short news paragraph in a newspaper concerning a particular person, as one who is socially prominent, or a group of particular persons who are socially prominent.
		concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers" [ant: cloud]
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/personal (778 words)

	Grammatical person Information
		The table at right shows which combinations of tense and grammatical person are generally appropriate.
		Since the arrival of 3D computer graphics in games it is often possible for the player to switch between first- and third-person perspectives at will; this is usually done to improve spatial awareness, but can also improve the accuracy of weapons use in generally third-person games such as the Metal Gear Solid franchise.
		During one set-piece battle, attempting to enter the first-person view instead shows the antagonist's view of the player's avatar.
	www.bookrags.com /Grammatical_person (817 words)

	Quest for gender-neutral pronouns - Meta
		There are a variety of situations in which a (possibly subconscious) decision must be made: whether to use gender-specific pronouns in a generic sense, employ singular they, recast the sentence, or some other solution.
		Usage of the male pronouns to refer to a person who could be of either sex was prescribed by manuals of style and school textbooks from the early nineteenth century until the latter third of the twentieth century:
		Another approach is to always determine the gender of the person being spoken of, before using pronouns to reference him or her.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Quest_for_gender-neutral_pronouns (1806 words)

	Glossary Web Page
		An agglutinative language is marked by a tendency to express grammatical relations by a prefix or a suffix, but the sounds of these affixes are always clearly distinguishable from the words they're modifying.
		Grammatically, the words cat's and song's are both in the possessive (aka genitive) case, but there's a different kind of relationship each has to the nouns they're governing.
		These are pronouns which also convey grammatical person: lst: ego, nos, etc.; 2nd, tu, vos, etc.; 3rd.
	www.languages.uncc.edu /dagrote/Wheelock/glossary.htm (7903 words)

	Second Person Fiction test copy 1
		In fact, appreciative of the difficulties of adequately defining the "second person" as a distinct field, Richardson proceeds on the premise that the "very essence [of the "second person"] is to eschew a fixed essence" (Richardson, 1991: 311).
		The beguilingly candid nature of the "second person's" hailing gesture, of course, is deceptive: highly complex processes of ideological interpellation work at far deeper levels than that of explicit address.
		At the point at which "a very personal experience" is described in such a way that the "second-person" pronoun becomes the referent of a character or actant within a narrative it loses all sense of its linguistic function of address and becomes a mere substitute for "I" (Passias, 1976: 199).
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