This book explores, analyzes, and compares the use of German and Chinese demonstratives. Discourse and textual uses of the forms are considered, as well as thei
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
This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic
This volume contains a careful selection of papers concerned with actual research questions on anaphoric reference, a subject of current interest with various l