The Category of Person in Language

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Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- A. GENERAL DISCUSSION -- B. TYPES OF PERSON PATTERNS -- I. General Remarks -- II. Languages with Morphological Plural of Pronouns -- III. Languages without Morphological but with Lexical Plural, at least in the First Person -- IV. Languages with Lexical and Morphological Plural in the First Person -- V. Languages with Morphological or Lexical and Composite Plurals of the First Person -- VI. Languages with Two Composite Forms for Inclusive and Exclusive Plural of First Person -- VII. Languages with Variants of One Form Used to Express Inclusive and Exclusive Plural -- VIII. Languages with Variants of Second Person Plural for Inclusive First Person Plural -- IX. Languages with Complete Set of Pronouns Plus Composite Forms -- X. Languages with less than Three Distinct Plural Forms -- C. A NOTE ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF PATTERNS -- D. SPECULATIVE REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN OF SOME FIRST PERSONAL PRONOUNS -- Backmatter