Person

Person is an inflectional dimension used mostly on verbal predicates, possessed nouns and adpositions to denote the speech act participants speaker and hearer and their contrast with non-speech act particiants. In some languages, the dimension person is not categorized into speaker vs. hearer vs. non-speech act participants, but into what is called conjunct, locutor, informant, or epistemic source vs. other. The conjunct (locutor/informant/epistemic source) person is the speaker in statements and the addressee in questions.

Inflectional categories

 * First person
 * Second person
 * Third person
 * Fourth person
 * Locutor
 * Conjunct
 * Epistemic source
 * Informant

See also
 * Impersonal
 * Inclusive vs. exclusive

Origin
The term person and the names for the three main categories (first, second, third) go back to the ancient Greek grammarians.

Other languages

 * French personne
 * German Person (de)
 * Russian лицо