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Testing the Limits of Anaphoric Distance in Classical Arabic: a Corpus-Based Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
One of the central aims in research on anaphora is to discover the factors that determine the choice of referential expressions in discourse. Ariel (1988; 2001) offers an Accessibility Scale where referential expressions, including demonstratives, are ...
Jarbou Samir O., Migdadi Fathi
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Space and demonstratives: an experiment with Estonian exophoric demonstratives

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015
In recent years, the study of exophoric demonstratives has increased in Indo- European languages, but has received fairly little research attention in Estonian.
Maria Reile
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Spatial demonstratives, perceptual space, and linguistic diversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
versus extrapersonal space; object location ...
Coventry, Kenny   +2 more
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The interpretative options of anaphoric complex demonstratives

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
In this paper, we present experimental evidence from a ‘yes’/‘no’ judgement task and two acceptability rating studies (Experiments 1a-c) for the claim made in Hinterwimmer (2019) that sentences with two anaphorically interpreted complex demonstratives ...
Stefan Hinterwimmer, Umesh Patil
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Distributed utterances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
I propose an apparatus for handling intrasentential change in context. The standard approach has problems with sentences with multiple occurrences of the same demonstrative or indexical. My proposal involves the idea that contexts can be complex. Complex
B Geurts   +12 more
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The Loss of Grammatical Gender and Case Features Between Old and Early Middle English: Its Impact on Simple Demonstratives and Topic Shift

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2017
In this paper we examine the relation between the loss of formal gender and Case features on simple demonstratives and the topic shifting property they manifest. The examination period spans between Old English and Early Middle English.
Jurczyk Rafał
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On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian : the cel construction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper deals with the variable position of adjectives in the Romanian DP. As all other Romance languages, Romanian allows for adjectives to appear in both prenominal and post-nominal position.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Marchis, Mihaela
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Norme et usages des démonstratifs en bulgare

open access: yesRevue des études slaves, 2015
The system of demonstratives in the modern Bulgarian language has undergone important transformations compared to its status in the Old Bulgarian language.
Snejana Gadjeva
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From demonstratives to degree words: on the origin of the intensifying function of this/that in american english [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The intensifying function of this/that can be traced back to the 14th century, when they acquired their adverbial status as a result of a grammaticalization process that turned them from deictic demonstratives into degree adverbs with the meaning of ‘to ...
Calle-Martin, Javier
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Introspection without Judgment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The focus of this paper is introspection of phenomenal states, i.e. the distinctively first-personal method through which one can form beliefs about the phenomenology of one’s current conscious mental states.
Giustina, Anna
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