Publications

Publication details [#48535]

Beun, Robbert-Jan, Anita H. M. Cremers and P. L. A. Piwek. 2008. ‘Proximal’ and ‘distal’ in language and cognition: Evidence from deictic demonstratives in Dutch. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (4) : 694–718.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | deixis | demonstrative adjective

Language as a subject

Dutch | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article explores the differences in use between distal and proximal demonstrative terms via a corpus-based quantitative study of the deictic use of demonstratives in Dutch (and English).