On Transferred-Designation of the Reflexive Pronoun in Ancient Chinese Language
Sheng Liu
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Sheng Liu
Abstract
The reflexive pronouns 己,自,身 all have the transferred-designation in ancient chinese language.This papar analyses the appearance and distribution of these reflexive pronouns in ancient chinese literature,argues that the occurence of transferred-designation of reflexive pronouns is brought by the feature and context of ancient chinese language,not the evolution of reflexive pronouns to personal pronouns or the transfer of grammatical function of such pronouns,and also argues that self-representation function of these pronouns doesn't change.
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The reflexive pronouns 己,自,身 all have the transferred-designation in ancient chinese language.This papar analyses the appearance and distribution of these reflexive pronouns in ancient chinese literature,argues that the occurence of transferred-designation of reflexive pronouns is brought by the feature and context of ancient chinese language,not the evolution of reflexive pronouns to personal pronouns or the transfer of grammatical function of such pronouns,and also argues that self-representation function of these pronouns doesn't change.
Key concepts: Personal pronoun, Reflexive pronoun, Reflexivity, Linguistics, Pronoun, Object pronoun, Representation (politics), Context (archaeology)