Includes bibliographical references and index.

Person by other means / Alena Witzlack-Makarevich -- Patterns of alignment in verb agreement / Bernard Comrie -- Human themes in Spanish ditransitive constructions / Denis Creissels -- The generic use of the second person singular pronoun in Mandinka / Sonia Cristofaro -- The referential hierarchy : reviewing the evidence in diachronic perspective / William Croft -- Agreement as anaphora, anaphora as coreference / Johan van der Auwera -- Towards a distributional typology of human impersonal pronouns, based on data from European languages / Christian Lehmann -- Partial coreference / Martin Haspelmath -- Argument indexing: a conceptual framework for the syntactic status of bound person forms / Andrej A. Kibrik -- Peculiarities and origins of the Russian referential system / Andrej L. Malchukov -- Alignment preferences in basic and derived ditransitives / Marianne Mithun -- Prosody and independence : free and bound person marking / Johanna Nichols -- The origin and evolution of case-suppletive pronouns : Eurasian evidence / Dik Bakker -- Suppletion in person forms: the role of iconicity and frequency / Anna Siewierska and Dik Bakker.