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Demonstratives in Afaan Oromoo [PDF]

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This study explores demonstratives in Afaan Oromoo, focusing on morphosyntactic, semantic classes and pragmatic aspects. It also examines that the choice of demonstratives is determined not solely by the speaker’s desired attention, but also by ...
Eba Teresa Garoma
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Phonological derivation from proximal to distal demonstratives in Chinese

Linguistics, 2022
Every language has at least two demonstratives or deictic terms, a proximal one and a distal one, and some languages in addition have a medial (or some other additional) demonstrative.
Shi Yuzhi
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Demonstrative Reference and Semantic Space: A Large-Scale Demonstrative Choice Task Study. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2020
Rocca R, Wallentin M.
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The Syntactic-Semantic Analyses of Sasak Demonstratives in Lombok

Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2020
Sasak language is spoken by approximately 3,352,888 people in Lombok, Indonesia. Typologically, it is a complex language because of its dual word orders. With its six dialectal varieties Meriaq-Meriqu, Menu-Meni, Ngeno-Ngene, Nggeto-Nggete, Meno-Meno and
Sutarman Sutarman, Nurachman Hanafi
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Demonstratives as bundlers of conceptual structure

Glossa, 2021
Pronoun resolution has long been central to psycholinguistics, but research has mostly focused on personal pronouns (“he”/“she”). However, much of linguistic reference is to events and objects, in English often using demonstrative pronouns, like “that ...
Elsi Kaiser, Eva Wittenberg, Shota Momma
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Explaining variance in writers’ use of demonstratives: A corpus study demonstrating the importance of discourse genre

Glossa, 2022
Demonstratives such as this and that are among the most frequently used words in texts. But what are the factors that determine whether a writer uses one demonstrative form (proximal this) or another (distal that)?
Alfons Maes, David Peeters, Emiel Krahmer   +2 more
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DEITTICO, ARTICOLO ‘ARTICOLOIDE’. MULTIFUNZIONALITÀ DEI DIMOSTRATIVI NEL CHRONICON VULTURNENSE [PDF]

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023
The study of Latin demonstratives in early medieval texts has mainly focused on the diachronic reconstruction of the formation of the article from the demonstrative.
Rossana CICCARELLI
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Learning from Demonstration without Demonstrations [PDF]

2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
Blau, Tom, Francis, Gilad, Morere, Philippe   +2 more
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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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The word order in Swahili adnominal constructions with locative demonstratives

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2015
This paper analyses the demonstratives of noun classes 16–18, the locative demonstratives, in Swahili. The main focus of the paper is the word order of these demonstratives in adnominal constructions.
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
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