[Lingtyp] Demonstratives to mean deviation from social norm

[Arnold Zwicky]

> On Mar 25, 2026, at 7:31 AM, Adam James Ross Tallman via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> In Chacobo there seems to be a demonstrative that means "do something) that deviates from socially normal expectations". This is a pretty preliminary description, so I'm open to other ideas and reconceptualizations. I call it 'more distal', as an adnominal marker, it doesn't tend to have this meaning.
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> I was wondering whether anyone had written about something similar in another language? Let me know.

his isn't very helpful, but I have a recolletion of remote distal demonstratives being cited in several languages, though I can't now find atual citations. (I suffer from having lost all my files and also library access, so I have only my very aged and imperfect memory.)

Arnold