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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV,. Current issues in linguistic theory ;.
Diachrony of personal pronouns in Japanese: a functional and cross-linguistic perspective. — v. 344. / Osamu Ishiyama, Soka University of America. — 1 online resource (viii, 169 pages). — (Current issues in linguistic theory). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1993233.pdf>.

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Subject: Japanese language — Pronoun.; Japanese language — Pronoun.; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages

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Table of Contents

  • DIACHRONY OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN JAPANESE
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Preliminary remarks
    • 1.2 Towards a definition of personal pronouns (in Japanese)
    • 1.3 Synchronic overview
    • 1.4 Diachronic overview
    • 1.5 Periodization and data
    • 1.6 Outline
  • Chapter 2. Noun-based forms
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 First person forms
      • 2.2.1 Watakushi ‘private’
      • 2.2.2 Boku ‘servant’
    • 2.3 Second person forms
      • 2.3.1 Kimi ‘lord’
      • 2.3.2 Kisama ‘nobility’
    • 2.4 Semantic bleaching and pragmatic depreciation
    • 2.5 Summary and conclusion
  • Chapter 3. Demonstrative-based forms
    • 3.1 Demonstratives in Japanese
      • 3.1.1 Demonstratives and Japanese personal pronouns
      • 3.1.2 Overview of Japanese demonstratives
    • 3.2 Third person forms
    • 3.3 First/second person forms
      • 3.3.1 Metonymic use of demonstratives for person referents
    • 3.3.2 Inapplicability of speaker innovation
    • 3.3.3 Functional dissimilarity between demonstratives and first/second person pronouns
    • 3.3.4 From a demonstrative to a second person pronoun
    • 3.4 Location nouns
      • 3.4.1 Omae ‘honorable front’
      • 3.4.2 Temae ‘in front of hand’
    • 3.5 Summary and conclusion
  • Chapter 4. Principles of person shift
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Extravagant politeness
    • 4.3 Spatial perspectives
    • 4.4 Empathetic perspectives and self-objectification
      • 4.4.1 Pragmatic depreciation and person shift
      • 4.4.2 Self-objectification and pragmatic depreciation of temae ‘in front of hand’
    • 4.5 Summary and conclusion
  • Chapter 5. Diachrony of personal pronouns in functional and cross-linguistic perspectives
    • 5.1 Nominal sources
    • 5.2 Displacement of semantic features
    • 5.3 Demonstratives
    • 5.4 Reflexives
    • 5.5 Grammaticalization and the emergence of personal pronouns
      • 5.5.1 Controversies surrounding grammaticalization and related phenomena
      • 5.5.2 What grammaticalization and the development of personal pronouns suggest about each other
    • 5.6 Summary and conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Conclusion
    • 6.1 Summary of the major findings
    • 6.2 Directions for future research
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index

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