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Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar

Drawing on recent work in developmental and comparative psychology, this paper argues that demonstratives function to coordinate the interlocutors' joint focus of attention, which is one of the most basic functions of human communication...

Keywords: demonstratives, joint attention, deixis, pointing, grammaticalization, evolution of grammar

12/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter
Demonstratives in parallel texts: a case study

The aim of this paper is to show the usefulness of parallel texts for typological inves-tigations. In order to analyze the way in which demonstrative systems of the European languages function, two kinds of data have been considered: first, the results of a questionnaire based on situations represented in 48 pictures, which will be necessarily discussed only in a summarized way here...

Keywords: deixis, demonstratives, parallel texts, dyad of conversation

02/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag