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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2018
      July 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108333818
      9781108424288
      9781108440028
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333818
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.78kg, 402 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 404 Pages
      • Series:
      Language Culture and Cognition (14)
      Subjects:
      Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
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    Series:
    Language Culture and Cognition (14)
    Subjects:
    Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
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    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.

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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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