Chapter 11. The category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese
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Federica Da Milano
Abstract
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.
Abstract
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.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology – An overview 1
- Chapter 2. Towards standardization of morphosyntactic terminology for general linguistics 35
- Chapter 3. Universal underpinnings of language-specific categories 59
- Chapter 4. Typology of functional domains 101
- Chapter 5. Theories of language, language comparison, and grammatical description 137
- Chapter 6. Comparative concepts are not a different kind of thing 211
- Chapter 7. Essentials of the unityp research project 249
- Chapter 8. The non-universality of linguistic categories 279
- Chapter 9. Parts of speech, comparative concepts and Indo-European linguistics 313
- Chapter 10. Verbal vs. nominal reflexive constructions 367
- Chapter 11. The category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese 389
- Subject index 411
- Language index 419
- Author index 421
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology – An overview 1
- Chapter 2. Towards standardization of morphosyntactic terminology for general linguistics 35
- Chapter 3. Universal underpinnings of language-specific categories 59
- Chapter 4. Typology of functional domains 101
- Chapter 5. Theories of language, language comparison, and grammatical description 137
- Chapter 6. Comparative concepts are not a different kind of thing 211
- Chapter 7. Essentials of the unityp research project 249
- Chapter 8. The non-universality of linguistic categories 279
- Chapter 9. Parts of speech, comparative concepts and Indo-European linguistics 313
- Chapter 10. Verbal vs. nominal reflexive constructions 367
- Chapter 11. The category ‘pronoun’ in East and Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese 389
- Subject index 411
- Language index 419
- Author index 421
