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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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Tentative Reference Acts? ‘Recognitional Demonstratives’ as Means of Suggesting Mutual Knowledge – or Overriding a Lack of It [PDF]

, 2012
In an explorative study on German oral corpus data we investigate recognitional use of proximal demonstratives as a means of explicit speaker-hearer interaction shaping the discourse structure. We show that recognitionals mark tentative reference acts in
Averintseva-Klisch Maria, Consten, Manfred   +1 more
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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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Non-situational functions of demonstrative noun phrases in Lingala (Bantu) [PDF]

, 2012
This paper examines the non-situational (i.e., non-exophoric) pragmatic functions of the three adnominal demonstratives, oyo, wand, and yango in the Bantu language Lingala.
Meeuwis, Michael, Stroeken, Koenraad
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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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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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Metaphysics of Quantity and the Limit of Phenomenal Concepts [PDF]

, 2018
Quantities like mass and temperature are properties that come in degrees. And those degrees (e.g. 5 kg) are properties that are called the magnitudes of the quantities.
Lam, Derek
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Between anaphora and deixis...the resolution of the demonstrative noun-phrase ‘that N’ [PDF]

, 2011
Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun
Cowles, H Wind, Fossard, Marion, Garnham, Alan   +2 more
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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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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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