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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:34:50
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Levinson, Cutfield, Dunn, Enfield (eds.)

 


Title: Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective 
Series Title: Language Culture and Cognition 14  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/demonstratives-cross-linguistic-perspective?format=PB 


Editor: Stephen C. Levinson
Editor: Sarah Cutfield
Editor: Michael J. Dunn
Editor: N. J. Enfield

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108440028 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 36.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108440028 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 28.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108440028 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 33.83


Abstract:

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.
 



Introduction: demonstratives – patterns in diversity Stephen C. Levinson; 1.
The demonstrative questionnaire: 'this' and 'that' in comparative perspective
David P. Wilkins; 2. Lao demonstrative determiners nii4 and nan4 – An
intentionally discrete distinction for extensionally analogue space Nick
Enfield; 3. Dalabon exophoric uses of demonstratives Sarah Cutfield; 4.
Brazilian Portuguese – non-contrastive exophoric use of demonstratives in the
spoken language Sergio Meira and Raquel Guirardello-Damian; 5. 'See this
sitting one' – demonstratives and deictic classifiers in Goemai Birgit
Hellwig; 6. Tzeltal – the demonstrative system Penelope Brown and Stephen C.
Levinson; 7. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction: spontaneous vs. elicited
data Jürgen Bohnemeyer; 8. Lavukaleve – exophoric usage of demonstratives
Angela Terrill; 9. Tiriyó – non-contrastive exophoric uses of demonstratives
Sergio Meira; 10. Trumai – non-contrastive exophoric uses of demonstratives
Raquel Guirardello-Damian; 11. Saliba – Exophoric demonstratives Anna
Margetts; 12. Warao demonstratives Stefanie Herrmann; 13. Chukchi –
non-contrastive spatial demonstrative usage Michael Dunn; 14. Yélî Dnye –
demonstratives in the language of Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea Stephen C.
Levinson; 15. Tidore – non-contrastive demonstratives Miriam van Staden; 16.
The Jahai multi-term demonstrative system – what's spatial about it? Niclas
Burenhult.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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