<div dir="ltr">Dear Michael, dear students, <div>my PhD thesis (published in Italian) was devoted to spatial deixis in some European languages, trying to define the subtle differences between so-called 'person-oriented' and 'distance-oriented' systems. I also wrote a chapter in a collected volume in English on the same topic. </div><div>I used a questionnaire based both on Wilkins and Jungbluth's ones.</div><div>Please, feel free to contact me in case you want the files.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck with your research!</div><div>Federica</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mar 25 feb 2020 alle ore 17:36 Michael Daniel <<a href="mailto:misha.daniel@gmail.com">misha.daniel@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>my students are going to do a field study to collect basic information on the use of three deictic pronouns in Rutul, Lezgic, East Caucasian; and would like to ask for advice. This is a system of three demonstratives, but we are not sure whether this is a person- or distance-oriented system or something else. None of them speaks the language (while they have a fairly good understanding of Rutul grammatical system). The corpus is by far not big enough to provide evidence (as is probably often the case with demonstratives). Grammaticality and appropriateness judgments in artificial settings are not consistent. </div><div><br></div><div>Can you indicate successful field / experimental studies that deal with this and are specific about their protocol and experiment design? Among other options, we were considering using David P. Wilkins <a href="http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/download/1999_The_1999_demonstrative_questionnaire_this_that.pdf" target="_blank">questionnaire</a>, but it does not provide guidelines on best practices of how to apply it (apparently, that was the author's intention). We have some ideas, but wanted to ask - and discuss these ideas - with anyone who has experience in using this or another questionnaire on deictic pronouns. We would also be grateful for additional references in the literature.</div><div><br></div><div>You may as well reply to my personal email, with copies to the students (in the copy above),</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Daniel </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Prof.ssa Federica Da Milano<div>Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione “Riccardo Massa”<br>Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca<br>piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, 1 (Edificio U6, IV piano)<br>20126 Milano<br><a href="mailto:federica.damilano@unimib.it" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">federica.damilano@unimib.it</a><br><a href="mailto:federica.damilano@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">federica.damilano@gmail.com</a><br>Skype Name: federica20071<br><br><br></div></div></div>