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From demonstrative to filler:estein Amazonian Spanish and beyond
Linguistics, 2023 In Amazonian Spanish, este has two main functions: demonstrative and filler. Filler-este, which originally evolved from demonstrative-este, serves to deal with word-formulation delays during spontaneous speech production. Analyses of conversations reveal
Rosa Vallejos
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Demonstrative Reference and Semantic Space: A Large-Scale Demonstrative Choice Task Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Spatial demonstratives (words like this and that) have been thought to primarily be used for carving up space into a peripersonal and extrapersonal domain.
Roberta Rocca +2 more
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Nominal Determination in Niaboua [PDF]
Uirtus, 2023 Nouns can function as the subject or object of a verbal statement. In languages, nouns can be grouped into two main categories: proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns do not take determiners.
Vélérou Adelin Fallé +1 more
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Adverbial reinforcement of demonstratives in dialectal German
Glossa, 2021 In the German dialects of Rhine and Moselle Franconian, demonstratives are reinforced by locative adverbs do/lo ‘here/there’ in order to emphasize their deictic strength.
Augustin Speyer, Philipp Rauth
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Do thus: an investigation into anaphoric event reference
Glossa, 2021 Work on anaphoric event reference has focused on do so, do it, do this, and do that. This paper reports on an analysis of a heretofore unstudied form of event reference, do thus.
Joshua Wampler
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Kinestetik, 2023 The purpose of this study is to find out the initial reference and see other research perspectives as a basis for developing appropriate teaching methods in physical education.
Pungki Indarto +5 more
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Death of a Demonstrative: Person and Time. The Case of Estonian too [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 Demonstratives comprise different systems in different Estonian dialect areas. The number of demonstrative pronouns in these systems ranges from one to three.
Renate Pajusalu
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Demonstratives in Spatial Language and Social Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper offers a review of research on demonstratives from an interdisciplinary perspective. In particular, we consider the role of demonstratives in current research on language universals, language evolution, language acquisition, multimodal ...
Holger Diessel, Kenny R. Coventry
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The Referential Uses of Demonstratives in Kerinci Malay, Indonesia
Arbitrer, 2020 Demonstratives are pervasive and ubiquitous in every human language. This study explores further evidence from Kerinci, a Malayic sub-variety spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia. It highlights the referential uses of the Kerinci proximal demonstratives ineh/neh
Ernanda Ernanda
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Languages, 2023 In this paper we document a so-far neglected case of microvariation involving resumptive pronouns in the left-dislocation construction in Meranese, spoken in South Tyrol, and Mòcheno, spoken in the Fersina valley (Trentino).
Federica Cognola, Jan Casalicchio
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