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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Dear all,<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">I am working on a paper about the discourse functions of ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ demonstratives, with a focus on Tiang (a Meso Melanesian language from New Ireland, PNG, which I am doing
fieldwork on).<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Are you aware of other languages with a ‘visible’/‘invisible’ distinction in demonstratives, and whether ‘visible’ and ‘invisible’ demonstratives differ in their discourse functions? I am interested
in which demonstratives can act as anaphors and/or cataphors, and whether certain demonstratives are more frequent in a certain function. Most grammars do not really talk about this… Information on any language (Austronesian, Papuan, other language families)
would be a great help.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Christoph<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Christoph Holz<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">PhD Candidate<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">James Cook University<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:DengXian;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-GB">Cairns, Australia</span><br>
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