Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. I. Case studies on special problems of the inclusive-exclusive distinction
6. Understanding inclusives 3
7. Inclusive-exclusive as person vs. number categories worldwide 49
8. Syncretisms involving clusivity 73
9. Only you ? 113
10. Inclusive and exclusive in free and bound person forms 151
11. Inclusive imperative 179
12. A typology of honorific uses of clusivity 213
13. Exclusive pronouns in American Sign Language 231
14. II. Areal and family portraits of the inclusive-exclusive distinction
15. Inclusive-exclusive in Austronesian 261
16. The inclusive-exclusive distinction in Tibeto-Burman languages 291
17. Inclusive-exclusive distinctions in the languages of central-western South America 313
18. Inclusive and exclusive in Turkic languages 341
19. Development of an inclusive-exclusive distinction 359
20. The inclusive and exclusive in Shuswap 381
21. Clusivity cross-linguistically 399
22. Index 425