Concept: person index

Definition

A person index is a °bound °person form.

Comments

Traditionally, person indexes are often treated as "agreement markers" or as "clitic pronouns". Since Haspelmath (2013), the term "person index", which neutralizes this distinction, has become more and more common.

Wikipedia

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Quotation

"Here I have focused on bound person forms, which are conveniently called person indexes, and I have argued that one should not try to conceptualize person indexes uniformly as either “pronouns” of a special kind or as “agreement markers” of a special kind. As shown by Siewierska (2004), bound person markers are most commonly cross-indexes (optionally cooccurring with a conominal), and these are best regarded as phenomena sui generis." (Haspelmath 2013: 233)

Sources

Haspelmath 2013; Siewierska 2004