Grammar, Comparative and general -- Demonstratives

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DEMONSTRATIVES IN DISCOURSE

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This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, b…

Demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective

by Levinson, Stephen

fromLanguage, culture, and cognition

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Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-l…