[Lingtyp] fieldwork on deixis

[Federica Da Milano]

Dear Michael, dear students,
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.
I used a questionnaire based both on Wilkins and Jungbluth's ones.
Please, feel free to contact me in case you want the files.

Good luck with your research!
Federica

Il giorno mar 25 feb 2020 alle ore 17:36 Michael Daniel <
misha.daniel at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Dear all,
>
> 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.
>
> 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 questionnaire
> <http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/download/1999_The_1999_demonstrative_questionnaire_this_that.pdf>,
> 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.
>
> You may as well reply to my personal email, with copies to the students
> (in the copy above),
>
> Michael Daniel
>
>
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