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Pointing Out Directions in Murrinhpatha
Open Linguistics, 2016 Rather than using abstract directionals, speakers of the Australian Aboriginal language Murrinhpatha make reference to locations of interest using named landmarks, demonstratives and pointing.
Blythe Joe +3 more
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Deictic marking in adpositions in Ap Ma and Waran
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 Two neighboring languages of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, Ap Ma (Keram) and Waran (Ramu), exhibit an unusual structure in adpositional phrases. In both languages, all postpositions that govern nouns are obligatorily marked with deictic prefixes ...
Don Killian, Russell Barlow
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Demonstratives in Afaan Oromoo
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis study explores demonstratives in Afaan Oromoo, focusing on morphosyntactic, semantic classes and pragmatic aspects. It also examines that the choice of demonstratives is determined not solely by the speaker’s desired attention, but also by ...
Eba Teresa Garoma
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Demonstratives and the rhetorical structure of discourse [PDF]
Sintagma, 2009 Besides a canonical and extensively studied deictic use, demonstratives contribute to discourse cohesion in various ways. As a consequence of that these elements can be defined as multifunctional cohesion making devices.
Iker Zulaica Hernández
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Indexical demonstratives and identificational focus in Hungarian
Linguistica, 2016 This paper presents the results of an experiment regarding the use of Hungarian indexical demonstratives where it is shown that the use of indexicals depends on the nature of the context. More specifically, the use of indexical demonstratives is explored
Enikő Tóth, Péter Csatár
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Synonymy between Token-Reflexive Expressions [PDF]
, 2020 Synonymy, at its most basic, is sameness of meaning. A token-reflexive expression is an expression whose meaning assigns a referent to its tokens by relating each particular token of that particular expression to its referent.
Radulescu, Alexandru
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Gramaticalização e lexicalização no limite: demonstrativos românicos
Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012 Resumo: As teorias que se ocupam dos processos de gramaticalização e lexicalização têm apresentado grande progresso nos últimos tempos. No domínio românico, os demonstrativos são uma categoria que desafiam os atuais postulados das referidas teorias ...
César Nardelli Cambraia +2 more
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Space Trumps Time When Talking About Objects. [PDF]
Cogn Sci, 2019 The nature of the relationship between the concepts of space and time in the human mind is much debated. Some claim that space is primary and that it structures time (cf. Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) while others (cf.
Griffiths D, Bester A, Coventry KR.
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Do demonstratives have senses? [PDF]
, 2002 Frege held that referring expressions in general, and demonstratives and indexicals in particular, contribute more than just their reference to what is expressed by utterances of sentences containing them.
Heck, Richard
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What does that Lugwere demonstrative refer to? A semantic analysis of proximity and exteriority
Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 The Bantu language Lugwere (Uganda, JE17) has what at first sight appears to be a typical three-way distinction in its demonstratives, with a proximal, medial, and distal series of demonstratives.
Dorothy Ahn, Jenneke van der Wal
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