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Linglib.Core.Lexical.PersonCategory

Person Categories #

@cite{cysouw-2009}

The 8 referential person categories from Cysouw's paradigmatic framework, extracted to Core/ for use by both Phenomena/ (typological data) and Fragments/ (person feature decomposition).

This module contains just the type and its basic predicates. The full paradigmatic structure machinery (morpheme classes, homophony types, language data) remains in Phenomena/Agreement/PersonMarkingTypology.lean.

The 8 referential person categories (@cite{cysouw-2009}, Fig 10.1).

Three singular categories (individual speech act roles) and five group categories (attested combinations of participants).

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      All 8 categories in canonical order (singular, then group).

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        Map singular PersonCategory to PersonLevel (the canonical three-way person distinction used by PersonGeometry, DifferentialIndexing, etc.). Group categories map to none — they encode number distinctions that PersonLevel does not capture.

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          Round-trip: PersonLevel → PersonCategory → PersonLevel is identity.

          includesSpeaker on PersonCategory = hasParticipant ∧ hasAuthor on PersonLevel for singular categories: speaker (s1) = [+participant, +author], addressee (s2) = [+participant, −author], other (s3) = [−participant, −author]. This unifies the PersonCategory decomposition in Spanish/PersonFeatures.lean with PersonGeometry.decomposePerson.