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German demonstrative pronouns differ in their sensitivity to discourse and sentence topics
Frontiers in CommunicationGerman has two demonstrative pronoun series: the short form der, die, das, and the long form dieser, diese, dieses. Both forms can be used anaphorically, and they contrast with the personal pronouns er, sie, es in that they refer to an antecedent that is
Timo Buchholz, Klaus von Heusinger
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The Chinese copula SHI and Its Origin: A Congnitive-based Approach [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2006 This paper discusses the proposals of Li and Thompson (1977), Yen (1986), and Feng (1993) in relation to the development of the Chinese copula and argues that Li and Thompson’s suggestion of a topic mechanism, Yen’s analogical change, and Feng’s ...
Jung-hsing Chang
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Functional peculiarities of anaphoric units in the Japanese language system [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 This article is devoted to the analysis of the anaphoric usage of some Japanese units (copulas, nominalizers, demonstrative pronouns) at the semantic and syntactic levels.
Shalina Irina Victorovna +2 more
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When traditions meet different approaches: the case of exophoric Lithuanian demonstrative pronouns
Lietuvių Kalba, 2020 This paper aims to review the existing research on the exophoric Lithuanian demonstrative pronouns and to give a short review of other possible parameters alongside the distance that influences the choice of demonstratives as well as the applied methods ...
Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė
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MediAzioni, 2023 This article focuses on the anaphoric use of the demonstrative pronoun in Czech and in Italian. While the use of the Czech demonstrative ten is quite frequent and is perceived as neutral, the choice of the Italian demonstrative is influenced by various ...
Petra Macurová
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Between anaphora and deixis...the resolution of the demonstrative noun-phrase ‘that N’ [PDF]
, 2011 Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun
Cowles, H Wind +2 more
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Arabiyat, 2018 This paper aims to establish the Arabic cognates or origins of "demonstrative pronouns" in the world languages from a radical consonantal (lexical root) theory perspective. The data comprises key demonstrative pronouns like this, that in eleven major and
Zaidan Ali Jassem
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 Eesti keeles on kaks demonstratiivpronoomenite süsteemi: üheliikmeline, kus kasutatakse demonstratiivpronoomenit seedistantsneutraalselt, ja kaheliikmeline, kus see viitab kõneleja lähedal ning too kaugel olevale referendile.
Maria Reile +2 more
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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 This research analyses the pronominal system of Soikkola Ingrian. The main goal of the article is descriptive, because existing publications on Soikkola Ingrian give only a superficial analysis of pronouns and there are no detailed descriptions based on
Anna Schwarz, Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics [PDF]
, 2018 Montague and Kaplan began a revolution in semantics, which promised to explain how a univocal expression could make distinct truth-conditional contributions in its various occurrences.
Dever, Josh +2 more
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