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Information Structuring Resources in ContrastEdited by Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson
[Languages in Contrast 7:2] 2007
► pp. 221–240
The role of discourse topic and proximity for demonstratives in German and Russian
Maria Averintseva-Klisch | University of Tübingen, University of Jena (Germany)
This article discusses the textual functions of demonstratives in German and Russian in terms of ‘discourse topicality’ and ‘proximity’, thus covering a broad range of referential phenomena within a unified approach. It shows that — in spite of important grammatical differences between German and Russian — anaphoric and deictic uses of demonstratives are ruled by the same principles in both languages.
Keywords: deixis, anaphora, German/Russian, demonstratives
Published online: 07 December 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.7.2.08ave
https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.7.2.08ave
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