[An-lang] 'Visible' and 'invisible' demonstratives

[Robert Blust]

Hello Christoph,

For Austronesian cases, there is a summary in my open-access online book, *The
Austronesian languages* (google my name + title).  See Chapter 5, 'The
Lexicon', Sect. 5.4, 'Demonstratives, locatives, and directionals'.  Many
languages have a first-person, second-person, third-person distance
distinction, but for the distal member others distinguish 'in sight' vs.
'out of sight'.

I hope this helps.

Best,

Bob Blust

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 3:35 AM Christoph Holz <christoph.holz at my.jcu.edu.au>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
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> 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).
>
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> 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.
>
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> Kind regards,
>
> Christoph
>
>
>
> Christoph Holz
>
> PhD Candidate
>
> James Cook University
> Cairns, Australia
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