Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective - 14

Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language.

Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across 15 typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalisations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy.