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Demonstratives in Motion: The Grammaticalization of Demonstratives as a Window into Synchronic Phenomena
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Ferrazzano, Lisa Reisig – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is significant variation in the literature on how demonstratives are characterized semantically, leading to divergent syntactic analyses of demonstratives. A major source of this disagreement regards how distance specifications relate to the demonstrative: whether [+/- speaker] is an integral property of the demonstrative or not. I argue…
Descriptors: Grammar, Generative Grammar, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)