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Article: THE SO-CALLED "THIRD"-PERSON POSSESSIVE PRONOUN jue [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII TEXT] IN CLASSICAL CHINESE.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Jue [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII TEXT] in Classical Chinese is commonly understood as an anaphoric, possessive pronoun in the third person. An examination of bronze inscriptions from the Eastern Zhou to the Zhanguo period (ca. eigthth to fourth centuries B.C.) leads to a new understanding of jue and its morphological, prosodic, and syntactic characteristics: jue also functions as a first-and second-person pronoun, denotes a specific deictic range, as zhi [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII TEXT] also does, and, in terms of stress, is stronger than qi [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII TEXT] and nai [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE ...