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Demonstratives in discourse

Næss, Åshild - Personal Name; Margetts, Anna - Personal Name; Treis, Yvonne - Personal Name;

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, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.

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Series Title: Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 6
Call Number: 425 DEM
Publisher: Berlin : Language Science Press., 2020
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-96110-286-0
Classification: 425
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Subject(s): Grammar, Comparative and general—Demonstratives
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Statement of Responsibility: Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts, Yvonne Treis

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