30.915, Books: Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese: Ishiyama

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:49:55
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese: Ishiyama

 


Title: Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese 
Subtitle: A functional and cross-linguistic perspective 
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 344  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.344 


Author: Osamu Ishiyama

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262813 Pages: 173 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262813 Pages: 173 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262813 Pages: 173 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202376 Pages: 173 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202376 Pages: 173 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202376 Pages: 173 Price: Europe EURO 100.70


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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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