Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781108424288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 402 str.

Stephen Levinson; Sarah Cutfield; Michael Dunn

Opis

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

Introduction: demonstratives – patterns in diversity Stephen C. Levinson; 1. The demonstrative questionnaire: 'this' and 'that' in comparative perspective David P. Wilkins; 2. Lao demonstrative determiners nii4 and nan4 – An intentionally discrete distinction for extensionally analogue space Nick Enfield; 3. Dalabon exophoric uses of demonstratives Sarah Cutfield; 4. Brazilian Portuguese – non-contrastive exophoric use of demonstratives in the spoken language Sergio Meira and Raquel Guirardello-Damian; 5. 'See this sitting one' – demonstratives and deictic classifiers in Goemai Birgit Hellwig; 6. Tzeltal – the demonstrative system Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson; 7. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction: spontaneous vs. elicited data Jürgen Bohnemeyer; 8. Lavukaleve – exophoric usage of demonstratives Angela Terrill; 9. Tiriyó – non-contrastive exophoric uses of demonstratives Sergio Meira; 10. Trumai – non-contrastive exophoric uses of demonstratives Raquel Guirardello-Damian; 11. Saliba – Exophoric demonstratives Anna Margetts; 12. Warao demonstratives Stefanie Herrmann; 13. Chukchi – non-contrastive spatial demonstrative usage Michael Dunn; 14. Yélî Dnye – demonstratives in the language of Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea Stephen C. Levinson; 15. Tidore – non-contrastive demonstratives Miriam van Staden; 16. The Jahai multi-term demonstrative system – what's spatial about it? Niclas Burenhult.