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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Demonstratives"”.
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The function of demonstratives in Zulu and English : a contrastive study with pedagogical implications
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Haec fortis sequitur illam indocti possident: A linguistic analysis of demonstratives in genres of early Latin fragments
<p>This study examines the claim that demonstratives are used more frequently in Latin comedies than in other genres (Karakasis, 2014; Palmer, 1975), as well as additional hypotheses regarding the use of demonstratives within this language. To examine these claims, I created a corpus composed of …
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Determination and modification in English and Tonga: a contrastive account
… and head-last parameters when it comes to demonstratives. Demonstratives can either be post or pre nominal; and (v) Tonga unlike English does not realize definiteness and indefiniteness by article but rather by the speech context. As a result of some provoking issues arising from the …
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Determination and modification in English and Tonga: a contrastive account
… and head-last parameters when it comes to demonstratives. Demonstratives can either be post or pre nominal; and (v) Tonga unlike English does not realize definiteness and indefiniteness by article but rather by the speech context. As a result of some provoking issues arising from the …
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Varieties of Linguistic Economy. Essays on Scope and Binding
… concerning, respectively, the nature of complex demonstratives and the purported logicality of natural language.
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The Blackfoot demonstrative system: Function, form, and meaning
… spatial features encoded by situational uses of demonstratives to the exclusion of other pragmatic functions. As a result, the proposals do not address variations in meaning when used in non-situational pragmatic contexts. To address this gap in the literature, I examine non-situational pragmatic …
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The Blackfoot demonstrative system: Function, form, and meaning
… spatial features encoded by situational uses of demonstratives to the exclusion of other pragmatic functions. As a result, the proposals do not address variations in meaning when used in non-situational pragmatic contexts. To address this gap in the literature, I examine non-situational pragmatic …
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Parameterized monads in linguistics
… as dot types. Alternative interpretations for demonstratives and imperatives are produced, and the conventional implicature phenomenon in linguistics substantiated, using the framework. Interpreting donkey anaphora shows that parameterized monads is able to handle the sentential dependency. …
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Adjectival definiteness marking: Lithuanian in a typological context /
… of nominal determination alongside determiners, demonstratives, phrasal clitics, and other means of marking the category of (in)definiteness. The ADM in contemporary Lithuanian is analysed through several cross-sections. The research is data-driven, based on empirical evidence, both qualitative …
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The Syntax of the Dialect of Bari
… interaction between adjectives, possessives and demonstratives. Barese nominals nearly systematically precede adjectives and possessives, except for a small class of rudimentary evaluative adjectives which may occur prenominally. These orders, derived via the phrasal movement of the nominal …
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Language and Reality: Stoic Semantics Reconstructed
… each capturing a different facet of reality. Demonstratives, for example, enable us to speak about objects even if we know nothing about them, provided that they are in front of us. Nouns, on the other hand, enable us to speak about things which are absent or no longer exist (e.g. Socrates), …
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L1 English L2 German learners' grammaticality judgments and knowledge of demonstrative pronouns
… asked to discuss their thoughts on the use of demonstratives and their purpose in German through the use of a post-test interview. The results show that some participants recognize the difference between pronouns in German and can select the appropriate antecedent.
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
… encoding: 1) the spatial deictic properties of demonstratives (Wilkins 1999); 2) the information status of the nominal (Aissen 2015); and 3) other referential properties of the nominal (Jenks 2015). Methodological innovations employed to address the difficulty inherent in investigating …
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Definiteness and Specificity in Second and Third Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
… system of bare nouns, classifiers, numerals, demonstratives, and modifiers. These variations provide unique cases for our empirical study on the acquisition of definiteness and specificity in an article-less language (i.e., Mandarin), a topic that has received less attention in the literature …
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Syntactic Tones of Nouns in Bemba
… phrasese.g. nouns and adjectives or nouns and demonstratives, etc. The items were then recorded on tape before transcribing them into phonetic notation.Finally, this study was done under the objectives and research questions that were especiallydesigned. And, other than using the informants to …
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Syntactic Tones of Nouns in Bemba
… phrasese.g. nouns and adjectives or nouns and demonstratives, etc. The items were then recorded on tape before transcribing them into phonetic notation.Finally, this study was done under the objectives and research questions that were especiallydesigned. And, other than using the informants to …
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Organizational and textual structuring of radio news discourse in English and Arabic.
… elements in DOEs are discourse deictic demonstratives, address pronouns and nouns referring to `the news'. Attribution is realized in reporting/reported clauses, and BI in a sentence, a clause or a nominal group. Thirdly, DOEs establish a hierarchy of (1) news, (2) summary/expansion and …
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A grammatical sketch of Kunda Language
… noun phrase which includes pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives possessives and quantifiers. The study observes that the verbal structure of Kunda contains numerous prefixes and suffixes and that the basic verbal root for Kunda is CVC. It has also been established that Kunda uses a series of …
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