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The German Demonstratives

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The term “demonstrative” is considered a semantic category rather than a word class. It is defined as a deictic word that indicates which entity the speaker refers to and thus demonstrativeness is intrinsic to its linguistic meaning. It encodes a sense of pointing, which involves a speaker, an entity pointed to, and a hearer.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Both bolded words are stressed in the actual communication.

  2. 2.

    For opposition of exclusion and opposition of inclusion see Diver, 1995.

  3. 3.

    The bolded words are stressed.

  4. 4.

    Translation credits given to Andre Schuetze and S. Kye Terrasi.

  5. 5.

    Please refer to: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/headers/2462.xml However, a request of using the corpus has to be approved.

  6. 6.

    The number of co-existence counted in the statistic validation part only refers to sentences where the indirect object is either introduced by a synthetic or prepositional dative. Thus, sentence complements are not included in this corpus search. For example, in for ðan ðe ðū eart dūst and tō dūste gewyrst ‘because you are dust and change into dust,’ the use of prepositional phrase with a datuve noun tō dūste does not count as a prepositional dative in discussion, because “dust” is not the indirect object of the sentence, but rather a complement of future status.

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Lin, L. (2020). Demonstratives. In: The German Demonstratives. Peking University Linguistics Research, vol 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8558-2_2

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