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  title info:
    title: Diachrony of personal pronouns in Japanese
    sub title: a functional and cross-linguistic perspective
  name:
    name part: Ishiyama, Osamu
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 173 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that while nouns give rise to personal pronouns through semanticization of pragmatic inferences, the use of non-nominal forms such as demonstratives and reflexives for person referents can be resolved within their original functions, offering little reason to treat them as personal pronouns. The cross-linguistic investigation into the common sources of personal pronouns reveals that the development of personal pronouns from nouns is largely consistent with grammaticalization, but that of forms of non-nominal origins requires separate mechanisms such as spatial/empathetic perspectives and displacement of semantic features for politeness, showing that a one-size-fits-all approach to diachrony of personal pronouns is not sufficient. This book will be of special interest to researchers and students in historical linguistics, pragmatics, and Japanese linguistics, who take a functional view of language.
  note: Osamu Ishiyama, Soka University of America.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-169) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Japanese language
    topic: Pronoun
  classification: PL583 .I85 2019
  classification: 495.65/55
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. v. 344
      part number: Series IV
      part name: Current issues in linguistic theory
  identifier: 9789027202376
  identifier: 9027202370
  identifier: 9789027262813
  identifier: 2018045384
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181018
    record change date: 20190718162800.0
    record identifier: in00004058328