Person

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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.

Inflectional categories

See also

Origin

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

Reference

Other languages

French personne German Person (de)