[Lingtyp] fieldwork on deixis

[Jorge Rosés Labrada]

Dear Michael,

I remember an excellent talk that Sarah Cutfield gave at Oregon in 2013
about having used this questionnaire to investigate Dalabon demonstratives.
There's a chapter by her in the Levinson et al. (2018) book* Demonstratives
in Cross-Linguistic Perspective *published by Cambridge that discusses the
findings but doesn't go into much detail about the methodology she used.
Her Monash University 2011 thesis is available online
<https://figshare.com/articles/Demonstratives_in_Dalabon_a_language_of_southwestern_Arnhem_Land/4663975/1>
but
doesn't say much about the methodology either or at least doesn't go in as
much detail about it as her talk did. Perhaps if you emailed her?

Best,
Jorge
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:45 AM Federica Da Milano <
federica.damilano at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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