{"pk":35134,"title":"The locutor-referential pronoun in Zhoutun","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper explores a special pronoun, the locutor-referential pronoun tha in Zhoutun, a Tibetanized Chinese variant spoken in the Amdo Sprachbund. Two rules of the use of tha are found in this paper. Rule 1: If tha occurs in a complement clause of a speech verb, it refers to the internal locutor. Rule 2: If tha occurs in an environment other than a complement clause of a speech verb, it refers to the narrative locutor. If only rule 1 is followed, then tha can be considered a logophoric pronoun; however, the speciality of tha lies in the fact that it can also be used in the context to which rule 2 applies, a usage that does not fit the definition of a logophoric pronoun. The use of tha is not obligatory. An inherited form from Mandarin Chinese, the formation of the locutor-referential tha has to do with the contact with Amdo Tibetan and its probable evolving pathway is “third-person pronoun> logophoric pronoun> locutor-referential pronoun”.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Articles of Special Issue 20.3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8752m8qq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Chenlei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhou","name_suffix":"","institution":"Chinese Academy of Social Sciences","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-06-04T05:46:25+08:00","date_accepted":"2021-06-04T05:46:25+08:00","date_published":"2021-12-31T16:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/himalayanlinguistics/article/35134/galley/26162/download/"}]}