The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account

This paper explores the rise of demonstrative-based person markers in the history of Japanese and takes Ishiyama's spatial semantic approach as its point of departure. Despite the claim that demonstrative-based person markers remained functionally demonstrative, I argue that they began to manif...

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Main Author: Yamaguchi, T.
Format: Article
Published: John Benjamins Publishing 2015
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