Demonstratives?
Michael Yadroff
myadroff at indiana.edu
Fri Nov 26 21:49:12 UTC 1999
Can anyone out there tell me if there is a specific term for
demonstratives when used indefinitely (i) or non-referentially (ii)
like in the following expression?
(i) "pogovorit' o tom, o sem" 'to talk about this and that';
or in the following sentence (from Turgenev's "Gamlet Shchigrovskogo uezda"):
(ii) "Ja, vidite li, robok, i robok ne v _tu_ silu, chto ja
provincial, a v _tu_ silu, chto ja strashno samoljubivyj chelovek."
'I'm, you see, shy, and I'm shy not because I'm from boondocks, but
because I'm terribly touchy person.'
Non-deictic demonstratives? (sounds like "hot ice")
my
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"Russkaja idej"
"Mu i sami-to okazalisj zdesj, ustav butj vragami.
No pomimo vsego, mu okazalisj zhertvami sobstvennogo idealizma, ibo nasha
izvechnaja toska po mirovoj kuljture nichto inoje kak ocherednaja russkaja
idej."
No comment ;-)
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