Chapter 3
Demonstrative-based forms
Article outline
- 3.1Demonstratives in Japanese
- 3.1.1Demonstratives and Japanese personal pronouns
- 3.1.2Overview of Japanese demonstratives
- 3.2Third person forms
- 3.3First/second person forms
- 3.3.1Metonymic use of demonstratives for person referents
- 3.3.2Inapplicability of speaker innovation
- 3.3.3Functional dissimilarity between demonstratives and first/second person pronouns
- 3.3.4From a demonstrative to a second person pronoun
- 3.4Location nouns
- 3.4.1Omae ‘honorable front’
- 3.4.2Temae ‘in front of hand’
- 3.5Summary and conclusion
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Notes