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Tilakaratne, Sunanda – 1988
The pronoun system in Sinhalese, which is spoken in Sri Lanka, is examined based on a Sinhalese speaker's intuition and consultation with other native speakers. Spoken Sinhalese differs from the written language in having an entirely different pronoun system. Spoken Sinhalese provides a good example of social deixis because it encodes social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Interpersonal Relationship, Pronouns
