TY - BOOK ID - 72017610 TI - Demonstratives : Form, function and grammaticalization PY - 1999 SN - 9027229422 1556196563 9786612162831 1282162837 9027298572 9789027298577 9781556196560 1556196571 9781556196577 9027229430 9789027229434 9789027229427 9781282162839 661216283X PB - Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Grammar [Comparative ] KW - Demonstratives KW - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Demonstratives. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Grammaticalization english language. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Linguistics KW - Philology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:72017610 AB - All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of ER -