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Demonstratives in Nivkh: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis

Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020
This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of the morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of Nivkh demonstratives, which represent a typologically interesting example of an exceptionally elaborated speaker-anchored deictic system.
Ekaterina Gruzdeva
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Semantics of Complex Demonstratives Semantics of Complex Demonstratives [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019
The semantics of complex demonstratives is one of the most important and controversial topics in philosophy of language which has never been ceased to attract philosophers’ interest and attention.
Kamran Ghayoomzadeh
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La syntaxe et la sémantique des démonstratifs prédicatifs en français, en chinois mandarin et en vietnamien : perspective typologique

Corela
This article proposes a comparative and typological study of predicative demonstratives in French, Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese. Six class of predicative demonstratives have been described one after another: presentive demonstratives, identification ...
Fanguang Kong, Huy Linh Dao
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Temporal constraints in the use of demonstratives in Iberian Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2012
Natural linguistic data show that a close relationship exists among demonstratives and time in Spanish. Such connection appears to be of a pragmatic nature whereby linguistic expressions that encode or denote time license the use of demonstratives under ...
Iker Zulaica Hernández
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Anaphoric demonstratives occur with fewer and different pointing gestures than exophoric demonstratives

Glossa
This study investigates the co-organization of place-referring demonstratives (e.g. here/there) and pointing gestures by speakers of Ticuna. Ticuna is an Indigenous Amazonian language with a six-term demonstrative system which lexically distinguishes ...
Amalia Horan Skilton
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An Exploratory Study of ASL Demonstratives

Languages, 2019
American Sign Language (ASL) makes extensive use of pointing signs, but there has been only limited documentation of how pointing signs are used for demonstrative functions.
Jill P. Morford, Barbara Shaffer, Naomi Shin, Paul Twitchell, Bettie T. Petersen   +4 more
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Kanuri DP Hypothesis: A Minimalist Approach

Arbitrer, 2020
This paper examines the structure of Kanuri DP (structure) Hypothesis within the framework of Abney (1987) and Chomsky (1995) Minimalist Programme (MP).
Baba Kura Alkali Gazali
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Time frame as a determinant of accessibility of anaphoric demonstratives in Classical Arabic

Topics in Linguistics, 2018
The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants for choosing nominal anaphoric demonstratives in Classical Arabic (CA) by examining their usage in a corpus of CA texts.
Jarbou Samer Omar
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L’espace déictique dans la langue mwan

Mandenkan, 2013
The article deals with a rather complicated system of demonstratives in Mwan (South Mande). The research was based on the experimental data obtained while using the methodology elaborated by de Max Planck Research group of Cognitive linguistics ...
Elena Perekhvalskaya
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A főnévi mutató névmások indexikális használatát befolyásoló tényezők a magyarban [PDF]

Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2014
Indexical demonstratives in Hungarian: an experiment This paper examines various hypotheses regarding the choice of Hungarian proximal and distal indexical demonstratives in an experimental framework. More specifically, three factors (i.e.
Enikő Tóth, Péter Csatár
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