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Second Person Pronouns in Serbo-Croatian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Margaret Kocher
Margaret Kocher*
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Abstract

This paper examines the use of second person pronouns, the relationships between speaker and addressee, the information conveyed by the choice of pronoun, and some of the implications that can be drawn from such linguistic data for Serbo-Croatian as spoken in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. It is based on my study of the language in Belgrade from 1962 to 1965, and in particular on the results of questionnaires and interviews obtained during the spring of 1965.

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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1967, pp. 725 - 741
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Copyright © 1967 Linguistic Society of America

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