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NeuroImage, 2020 Spatial demonstratives are powerful linguistic tools used to establish joint attention. Identifying the meaning of semantically underspecified expressions like “this one” hinges on the integration of linguistic and visual cues, attentional orienting and ...
Roberta Rocca +5 more
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The interpretative options of anaphoric complex demonstratives
Glossa, 2022 In this paper, we present experimental evidence from a ‘yes’/‘no’ judgement task and two acceptability rating studies (Experiments 1a-c) for the claim made in Hinterwimmer (2019) that sentences with two anaphorically interpreted complex demonstratives ...
Stefan Hinterwimmer, Umesh Patil
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Shrinking Your Deictic System: How Far Can You Go?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Languages around the world differ in terms of the number of adnominal and pronominal demonstratives they require, as well as the factors that impact on their felicitous use.
Mila Vulchanova +3 more
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Norme et usages des démonstratifs en bulgare
Revue des études slaves, 2015 The system of demonstratives in the modern Bulgarian language has undergone important transformations compared to its status in the Old Bulgarian language.
Snejana Gadjeva
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Demonstratives in discourse [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 1999 There are two influential theories that deal with the role of the context in determining the meaning of sentences: Kaplan's logic of demonstratives and Kamp's discourse representation theory. How Kaplan would deal with the donkey sentences must remain a matter of speculation, but there is an obvious and reasonable answer to the question of how ...
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Swahili demonstratives evaluating the validity of competing semantic hypotheses
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 Swahili demonstratives h- and -Ie have traditionally been analysed to mean "proximity" and "non-proximity" respectively. However, this analysis fails in that it can only account for a small part of the distribution of these forms in actual texts.
Robert A. Leonard
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PLoS 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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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2017 This paper discusses the syntax of relative clauses in European Portuguese (EP) by focussing on the status of the relativizer que in restrictive and appositive relative clauses.
Elisabeth Aßmann, Esther Rinke
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Demonstrative and non-demonstrative reasoning by analogy
, 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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DEMONSTRATION OF AN "AUTOFUNDOSCOPE."
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1898 The little device for which I have dared to coin the terrible word " Autofundoscope," is a very simple bit of mechanism, designed to slowly and accurately revolve a pin-hole through, and placed about two millimeters from, the center of a black rubber disc.
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