Essays about: "semantics of demonstratives"

Found 1 essay containing the words semantics of demonstratives.

  1. 1. What do Swedish demonstratives encode? : A study of exophoric demonstrative preferences

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Balder Ask Zaar; [2021]
    Keywords : Swedish demonstratives; den här; den där; semantics of demonstratives; semantic analysis of demonstratives; David Wilkins demonstrative questionnaire; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Swedish exophoric demonstratives have often been seen as words that encode distance-based concepts. Based on the studies of demonstrative systems of several other languages the view of demonstratives as distance-oriented has recently been put into question. READ MORE