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A contrastive analysis of articles in English and demonstratives in isiZulu
Literator, 2022 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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Constraints on German diese demonstratives: language formality and subject-avoidance
Glossa, 2020 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
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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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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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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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 +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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