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Tracking and recognitional use of Kalamang "opa" : Demonstrative of cognitive accessibility

Visser, Eline LU orcid (2020) p.103-103
Abstract
The Papuan language Kalamang has an adnominal demonstrativeopa, which marksreferents that are cognitively accessible either because they are common ground orbecause they are previously mentioned in the discourse. It is mainly an endophoricdemonstrative which has tracking and recognitional uses, but it can be used ex-ophorically as well. It can be used for both maintaining and reintroducing refer-ents. The demonstrativeopais co-lexified with a time adverbopa‘just now; ear-lier’. A grammaticalisation path cannot be established, but similar co-lexificationsare found in Bunaq (Timor-Alor-Pantar) and Indonesian (Austronesian)
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published
subject
keywords
grammar, discourse, Papuan linguistics, Demonstratives
host publication
Demonstratives in discourse
editor
Treis, Yvonne ; Næss, Åshild and Margetts, Anna
pages
121 pages
publisher
Language Science Press
ISBN
978-3-96110-286-0
978-3-96110-287-7
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.4054814
project
A grammar of Kalamang
language
English
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yes
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a5e28857-5d36-4a84-8b2d-3cc58e19924a
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https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/282
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2020-10-29 09:51:35
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2020-11-28 02:20:02
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  author       = {{Visser, Eline}},
  booktitle    = {{Demonstratives in discourse}},
  editor       = {{Treis, Yvonne and Næss, Åshild and Margetts, Anna}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-96110-286-0}},
  keywords     = {{grammar; discourse; Papuan linguistics; Demonstratives}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{103--103}},
  publisher    = {{Language Science Press}},
  title        = {{Tracking and recognitional use of Kalamang "opa" : Demonstrative of cognitive accessibility}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4054814}},
  doi          = {{10.5281/zenodo.4054814}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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