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Space and demonstratives: an experiment with Estonian exophoric demonstratives

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015
In recent years, the study of exophoric demonstratives has increased in Indo- European languages, but has received fairly little research attention in Estonian.
Maria Reile
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Advancing inorganic electro-optical materials for 5 G communications: from fundamental mechanisms to future perspectives

open access: yesLight: Science & Applications
In the 5 G era, the demand for high-capacity and fast fiber-optic communication underscores the importance of inorganic optical materials with high electro-optical (EO) coefficients, rapid responses, and stability for efficient electro-optical modulators.
Hao Wang   +9 more
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This shoe, that tiger: Semantic properties reflecting manual affordances of the referent modulate demonstrative use.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Demonstrative reference is central to human communication. But what influences our choice of demonstrative forms such as "this" and "that" in discourse?
Roberta Rocca   +2 more
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NON-VERBAL CLAUSES WITH DEMONSTRATIVE IDENTIFIERS IN THE HISTORY OF CROATIAN

open access: yesFluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2019
The paper presents a corpus-based typological and diachronic study of nonverbal clauses with demonstrative identifiers in Croatian. As one of the four types of demonstratives proposed by H.
Ana Šimić
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Relative constructions and the Bantu Relative Agreement Cycle in Western Serengeti

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics
This article offers the first comprehensive study of relative constructions among the members of the Western Serengeti (WS) group, a group of closely related Great Lakes Bantu language varieties spoken in the Mara region in northern Tanzania.
Rasmus Bernander   +2 more
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Conspicuous Consumption of Today’s Youth: Rational or Irrational Behavior? [PDF]

open access: yesDemocrazia e Diritti Sociali, 2020
In the article the main features of modern demonstrative consumer behavior under conditions of contemporary sociocultural and economic transformations is considered.
Viktoriia Zhurylo
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Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text: experimental evidence from German

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
In German written language, demonstrative expressions like diese or die play an important part in connecting discourse referents and making larger stretches of discourse coherent.
Alfons Maes, Nadine Braun, David Peeters
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Demonstrative and non-demonstrative reasoning by analogy

open access: yes, 2006
The paper analizes a set of issues related to analogy and analogical reasoning, namely: 1) The problem of analogy and its duplicity; 2) The role of analogy in demonstrative reasoning; 3) The role of analogy in non-demonstrative reasoning; 4) The limits of analogy; 5) The convergence, particularly in multiple analogical reasoning, of these two ...
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The Mighty Demonstrative

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Until recently, much typological work was necessarily based on comparisons of grammatical descriptions, still a fundamental resource. But as the field has progressed, it has become ever clearer that some aspects of structure emerge best in unscripted ...
Marianne Mithun
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KESIMETRISAN DALAM SISTEM DEMONSTRATIVA BAHASA MANDAILING

open access: yesLitera, 2015
This study aims to describe the demonstrative system in the Mandailing language. The data were collected from native speakers in their daily communication.
Namsyah Hot Hasibuan
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