Παρασκευή 4 Ιανουαρίου 2019

Such similatives: a cross-linguistic reconnaissance

Publication date: Available online 3 January 2019Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Johan van der Auwera, Kalyanamalini SahooAbstractThis paper is a preliminary exploration of the semantic and formal properties of the English word such and some of its counterparts in other languages. The proposal is that such words are 'demonstrative similatives' (or, equivalently, 'similative demonstratives'), i.e., their meanings lie at the intersection of the semantic dimensions of similarity and demonstration. We show that this kind of classification is straightforward for languages like Latin and Sanskrit, in which the counterparts to such occur in both similative and demonstrative paradigms. In these so-called 'correlative' paradigms the demonstrative similatives occur in systems with bo...

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