The historical development of person markers in Japanese: the roles of linguistic signs

This study is an attempt to explain the historical development of person markers in Japanese by means of Kellerian linguistic signs. It begins by assessing two recent papers by Heine and Song that use grammaticalisation theory as a tool to account for personal pronouns. Due to their rich semantic co...

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Main Author: Yamaguchi, T.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/19415/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.09.004
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Institution: Universiti Malaya