Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen C. (Max-Planck-Institut Fur Psyc Levinson
• Assisted by: Sarah Cutfield (Editor), Michael J. Dunn (Editor), Dunn Michael J. (Editor), N. J. Enfield (Editor), Enfield N. J. (Editor), Stephen C. Levinson (Editor), Levinson Stephen C. (Editor), Sérgio Meira (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108440028
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44002-8
• No. of pages: 403
• Series: Language Culture and Cognition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics