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Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that wh
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The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory
Grammaticalization – Theory and Data
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