Where do demonstratives come from?

Bernd Heine; Tania Kuteva; Haiping Long; Heiko Narrog; Fang Wu

doi:10.1515/stuf-2020-1002

Where do demonstratives come from?

Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, Haiping Long, Heiko Narrog, Fang Wu

LIT - Department of Global Humanities

University of Cologne

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Abstract

Studies in grammaticalization have established that processes of grammatical change frequently have lexical items as their source, and more specifically nouns and verbs. But there is at least one potential exception: As argued by Holger Diessel in a number of publications, demonstratives cannot be historically derived from other entities, such as lexical items. Based on a survey of languages from different parts of the world and belonging to different language families, the present paper argues that this generalization is in need of reconsideration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	403-434
Number of pages	32
Journal	STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
Volume	73
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2020-1002
Publication status	Published - 2020 Sept 1

Keywords

Deixis
Demonstrative
Grammaticalization
Locative adverb
Reinforcement
Verb of motion
Verb of perception
Verb of stance

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abstract = "Studies in grammaticalization have established that processes of grammatical change frequently have lexical items as their source, and more specifically nouns and verbs. But there is at least one potential exception: As argued by Holger Diessel in a number of publications, demonstratives cannot be historically derived from other entities, such as lexical items. Based on a survey of languages from different parts of the world and belonging to different language families, the present paper argues that this generalization is in need of reconsideration.",

keywords = "Deixis, Demonstrative, Grammaticalization, Locative adverb, Reinforcement, Verb of motion, Verb of perception, Verb of stance",

author = "Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long and Heiko Narrog and Fang Wu",

note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank Holger Diessel, Peter Harder, Johannes Helmbrecht, Ekkehard K{\"o}nig, Claire Moyse-Faurie, Jorge Ros{\'e}s-Labrada, Elly van Gelderen, as well as an anonymous reviewer for valuable comments on an earlier version of the paper. Furthermore, our thanks are due to a number of colleagues who contributed to the subject matter of this paper in a debate on the network Funknet between November 19 and 29, 2017. Finally, the first-named author would like to thank Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and the University of Cape Town and Matthias Brenzinger for the academic hospitality he received while working there on this paper. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 De Gruyter. All rights reserved.",

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