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Intro; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Person: A To-do List; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Inventory Of Persons And Their Interpretation; 1.3 Agreement For Person; 1.4 Syntactic Restrictions On Agreement; 1.5 The Realization Of Person Features; 1.6 Maximal Encoding; 1.7 Summary; 2 Person Features: Deriving The Inventory Of Persons; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Basic Proposal; 2.3 The Interpretation Of Person In Discourse; 2.4 The Third Person As Default; 2.5 Effects Of Maximal Encoding; 2.6 Honorifics; 2.7 Consequences For The Morphosyntax Of Prs; 2.8 Bound Pronouns 2.9 Conclusion3 Interactions Between Person And Number; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Two Types Of Number System; 3.3 Number In Pronouns And Associative Plurals; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Impersonal Pronouns; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Overview; 4.3 Generic And Arbitrary Readings Of Plural Pronouns; 4.4 Dedicated Impersonal Pronouns: Imp-2; 4.5 Generic Second Person Singular Pronouns; 4.6 Dedicated Impersonal Pronouns: Imp-1; 4.7 Why Inclusive Impersonal Pronouns Are Human; 4.8 Conclusion; 5 The Symmetric Nature Of Agreement; 5.1 Agreement: Symmetric Or Asymmetric?; 5.2 Feature Spreading 5.3 Referential Unagreement5.4 Quantificational Unagreement; 5.5 The Link Between Unagreement And Pro Drop; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 Syntactic Restrictions On Agreement; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Agreement And The Theory Of Syntactic Dependencies; 6.3 Syntactic Agreement Versus Restrictor Agreement; 6.4 Agreement: Upward And Downward; 6.5 The Domain Of Feature Spreading; 6.6 Intervention Effects; 6.7 Conclusion; 7 The Morphological Realization Of Person; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Patterns Of Syncretism; 7.3 Accounting For Person Syncretisms; 7.4 Shifts In Person Syncretism In Dutch; 7.5 Conclusion 8 Conclusionnotes; References; Index; Linguistic Inquiry Monographs Peter Ackema And Ad Neeleman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.