Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse - Theory Neutral

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In which we talk with Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann from the University of Cologne about the uses of demonstratives. Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. "Demonstratives in narrative discourse: A taxonomy of universal uses." Typological studies in language 33 (1996): 205-254. Dunn, Michael John. "A grammar of Chukchi." (1999). Kluge, A. (2017). A grammar of Papuan Malay. Language Science Press. Chafe W. L. (1980). The pear stories : cognitive cultural and linguistic aspects of narrative production. Ablex Publishing Corp. Shimoji, Michinori, and Thomas Pellard. An introduction to Ryukyuan languages. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2010. https://glottobank.org/#grambank Lesage, J., Haynie, H. J., Skirgård, H., Weber, T., & Witzlack-Makarevich, A. (2022, June). Overlooked Data in Typological Databases: What Grambank Teaches Us About Gaps in Grammars. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp. 2884-2890). EVANS, N., BERGQVIST, H., & SAN ROQUE, L. (2018). The grammar of engagement I: Framework and initial exemplification. Language and Cognition, 10(1), 110-140. doi:10.1017/langcog.2017.21 EVANS, N., BERGQVIST, H., & SAN ROQUE, L. (2018). The grammar of engagement II: Typology and diachrony. Language and Cognition, 10(1), 141-170. doi:10.1017/langcog.2017.22

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In which we talk with Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann from the University of Cologne about the uses of demonstratives. Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. "Demonstratives in narrative discourse: A taxonomy of universal uses." Typological studies in language 33...

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