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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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 +4 more
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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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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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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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Pragmatic uses of demonstratives in Cirebon Javanese conversation [PDF]
, 2014 This study examines demonstratives in the variety of Javanese spoken in the region of Cirebon, on the north coast of the province of West Java. After introducing the demonstrative paradigms found in Cirebon Javanese, this study analyses their functional ...
Ewing, Michael C.
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Experimental evidence for the influence of structure and meaning on linear order in the noun phrase
Glossa, 2020 Recent work has used artificial language experiments to argue that hierarchical representations drive learners’ expectations about word order in complex noun phrases like these two green cars (Culbertson & Adger 2014; Martin, Ratitamkul, et al. 2019).
Alexander Martin +4 more
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Reference in the Borderline of Space and Discourse: a Free Production Experiment in Estonian, Finnish and Russian; pp. 185-208 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2019 This study explores spatial reference in three different languages: ÂEstonian, Finnish and Russian. We concentrate on the use of demonstratives (i.e. pronouns and adverbs), and the association between the demonstrative pronoun system (i.e.
Maria Reile +3 more
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Demonstrative Paradigms in English and Ibibio: Some Contrastive Observations [PDF]
, 2018 This paper describes demonstrative paradigms in English and Ibibio based on their syntactic and semantic behaviours, especially with English as the language of education in Nigeria.
Ekah, Maria-Helen
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