The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account

• Main Author: Yamaguchi, T.
• Format: Article
• Published: John Benjamins Publishing 2015
• Subjects: DS Asia; PE English
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/19414/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.16.2.05yam

This paper explores the rise of demonstrative-based person markers in the history of Japanese and takes Ishiyama's spatial semantic approach as its point of departure. Despite the claim that demonstrative-based person markers remained functionally demonstrative, I argue that they began to manif...