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Demonstratives as dimension shifters

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Drawing on earlier work by Ebert and Ebert (2014), we argue that co-speech gestures contribute non-at-issue information by default (cf. Schlenker, 2018), flesh out their proposal that gestural content can be shifted via demonstratives (i.e. demonstratives function as dimension shifters from the non-at-issue to the at-issue dimension), and present experimental validation for this claim.

Source: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung

DOI: 10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.859

Authors: Ebert, Christian, Ebert, Cornelia, Hörnig, Robin

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3103853633

FWCI: 31.43

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Cited by: 30

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