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-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. Using a shared experimental task, rounded out with studies of natural language use, specialists in each of the languages undertook extensive fieldwork for this comparative study of semantics and usage. An introduction summarizes the shared patterns and divergences in meaning and use that emerge.
Demonstratives with their pointing gestures are amongst the first words that children learn, and they have fascinated theorists by the combination of slender semantic content and the practical force in communication. This book is for researchers and students in linguistics, philosophy and psychology interested in demonstratives, a key anchor tying language to the world.
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'Reporting on demonstratives in fifteen nearly all unrelated and 'exotic' languages, each language is studied with an identical, interactive elicitation technique, resulting in very detail language-specific descriptions as well as a typological sketch of the key parameters of variation. Even if readers already know that there is much more to this, that and the other than a proximal verus distal distinction, this book is a must.' Johan van der Auwera, Universiteit Antwerpen
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The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.
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1 Introduction: Demonstratives: Patterns in Diversity |
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2 The Demonstrative Questionnaire: "THIS" and "THAT" in Comparative Perspective |
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3 Lao Demonstrative Determiners Nii4 and Nan4: An Intensionally Discrete Distinction for Extensionally Analogue Space |
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4 Dalabon Exophoric Uses of Demonstratives |
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90 | (26) |
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5 Brazilian Portuguese: Non-contrastive Exophoric Use of Demonstratives in the Spoken Language |
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116 | (18) |
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Raquel Guirardello-Damian |
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6 "See This Sitting One": Demonstratives and Deictic Classifiers in Goemai |
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134 | (16) |
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7 Tzeltal: The Demonstrative System |
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150 | (26) |
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8 Yucatec Demonstratives in Interaction: Spontaneous versus Elicited Data |
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176 | (30) |
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9 Lavukaleve: Exophoric Usage of Demonstratives |
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206 | (16) |
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10 Tiriyo: Non-contrastive Exophoric Uses of Demonstratives |
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222 | (20) |
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11 Trumai: Non-contrastive Exophoric Uses of Demonstratives |
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242 | (15) |
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Raquel Guirardello-Damian |
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12 Saliba-Logea: Exophoric Demonstratives |
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257 | (25) |
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14 Chukchi: Non-contrastive Spatial Demonstrative Usage |
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303 | (15) |
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15 Yeli Dnye: Demonstratives in the Language of Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea |
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16 Tidore: Non-contrastive Demonstratives |
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343 | (18) |
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17 The Jahai Multi-term Demonstrative System: What's Spatial about It? |
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Stephen C. Levinson is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research focusses on language diversity and its implications for theories of human cognition. He is the author of over 300 publications. Sarah Cutfield is Visiting Fellow, Linguistics at the Australian National University. Her specialties are descriptive and typological linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language documentation, Australian Aboriginal languages, creole languages, language ideology and identity. Michael J. Dunn is Professor of General Linguistics at Uppsala Universitet, Sweden since 2014. His academic background is in language description, linguistic typology, and phylogenetics, and his current research focus is on the evolutionary dynamics of language change. N. J. Enfield is Professor of Linguistics at The University of Sydney. He is head of a Research Excellence Initiative on The Crisis of Post-Truth Discourse. His research on language, culture, cognition and social life is based on long term field work in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos. Sérgio Meira is a researcher at Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Bélem. He specializes in the Cariban and Tupian language families of lowland South America and in the Tiriyó language in particular.
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