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Publication details [#42524]

Marchello-Nizia, Christiane. 2005. Deixis and subjectivity: the semantics of demonstratives in Old French (9th–12th century). Journal of Pragmatics 37 (1) : 43–68.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

deixis | demonstrative reference | pragmatic interpretation | semantics1 | subjectivity

Language as a subject

French, Old

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses a pragmatic analysis to account for the use of demonstratives in Old French (9th–12th century), and in particular for the difference between the CIST and CIL series.