Kita’s usage in spoken discourse: Collectivity to singularity

This short communication explains that kita ‘we’ has an alternative usage as a singular personal pronoun, presented as kita ‘I’. The usage of kita is classified into six classes, based on its substitutability with saya and the context in which kita occurs. The purpose of this paper is to prove that...

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Main Author: Yamaguchi, Toshiko
Format: Article
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia 2018
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