In:Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese: A functional and cross-linguistic perspective
Osamu Ishiyama
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 344] 2019
► pp. 15–46
Chapter 2Noun-based forms
Published online: 10 January 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.344.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.344.c2
Article outline
- 2.1Introduction
- 2.2First person forms
- 2.2.1Watakushi ‘private’
- 2.2.2Boku ‘servant’
- 2.3Second person forms
- 2.3.1Kimi ‘lord’
- 2.3.2Kisama ‘nobility’
- 2.4Semantic bleaching and pragmatic depreciation
- 2.5Summary and conclusion
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