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In:Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology
Edited by Luca Alfieri, Giorgio Francesco Arcodia and Paolo Ramat
[Typological Studies in Language 132] 2021
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Chapter 11
The category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese

 | Università di Milano-Bicocca
Published online: 9 July 2021
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The topic of the paper is an analysis of the debated notion of the category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a special focus on Japanese. After a description of the main aspects of the notion of ‘person’ as a grammatical category, the focus is devoted to personal pronouns in general and then to personal pronouns in East and Southeast Asian languages. Special attention is devoted to Japanese personal pronouns, taking into account the Emancipatory Pragmatics approach.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Person as a grammatical category
  • 3.Personal pronouns
  • 4.Pronouns in East and South-East Asian languages
    • 4.1A focus on Japanese pronouns
    • 4.2Korean pronouns
  • 5.Ellipsis
  • 6.Towards an emancipatory pragmatics
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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