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A contrastive analysis of articles in English and demonstratives in isiZulu
An analysis of the use of demonstratives in isiZulu (izabizwana zokukhomba) has shown that they go beyond the known deictic functions of demonstratives as used in other languages like English. In isiZulu, demonstratives tend to also denote specificity, a
Elliot M. Mncwango
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Demonstratives, definite descriptions and non-redundancy [PDF]
In some sentences, demonstratives can be substituted with definite descriptions without any change in meaning. In light of this, many have maintained that demonstratives are just a type of definite description.
Blumberg, Kyle Hammet
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Constraints on German diese demonstratives: language formality and subject-avoidance
Demonstrative pronouns in German occur in various paradigms such as die, diese, jene, diejenige, dieselbe, etc. Among these only the most frequent paradigm, die, has received attention from psycholinguistic research.
Peter Bosch +2 more
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Phonological derivation from proximal to distal demonstratives in Chinese
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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The Syntactic-Semantic Analyses of Sasak Demonstratives in Lombok
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
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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DEITTICO, ARTICOLO ‘ARTICOLOIDE’. MULTIFUNZIONALITÀ DEI DIMOSTRATIVI NEL CHRONICON VULTURNENSE [PDF]
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]
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
Blau, Tom +2 more
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Ini Apel Ni Nya ‘This Here Apple Now' Deictics in the Malay Speech of Southwest Malukan Migrants in the Netherlands1 [PDF]
Dialek Melayu yang dipakai para pendatang asal Maluku Selatan di Belanda inimemperlihatkan rangkaian demonstrativa dan endofora yang tidak ditemukandalam bahasa Indonesia baku.
Engelenhoven, A. V. (Aone)
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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 +2 more
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