[Lingtyp] Demonstratives to mean deviation from social norm

[Adam James Ross Tallman]

Sorry just to clarify ... I meant not just cases of "out of vision"
demonstratives, but cases where demonstratives mean something about social
inappropriateness or dissonance.

A.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM Adam James Ross Tallman <
ajrtallman at utexas.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> adnominal
>
> adverbial
>
> verb
>
> proximate
>
> *naa*
>
> *nɨa*
>
> *nɨka*
>
> distal
>
> *toa*
>
> *toa*
>
> *toka*
>
> more distal
>
> *oa*
>
> *oa~oka*
>
> *oka*
>
> At base the morpheme seems to mean "out of vision", but not always.
>
> I was wondering whether anyone had written about something similar in
> another language? Let me know.
>
> best,
>
> Adam
> --
> Adam J.R. Tallman
> CNRS, Sedyl
>
>

-- 
Adam J.R. Tallman
Post-doctoral Researcher
Friedrich Schiller Universität
Department of English Studies
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