Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that wh

The use of 2SG pronoun anata 'you' in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious. Scholars have searched for a semantically loaded meaning, under the

Frequency analysis is crucial to the goals of this dissertation. Recently, we have witnessed a growing body of research by functionally oriented linguists (e.g.