The demonstrative THAT and the elaboration of reference: a case of linguistic accommodation

We examine the determiners and pronouns THIS and THAT, concentrating mostly on THAT, which, according to our data, signals that the reference or, in some cases, the process of categorization, is in progress (whereas with THIS, reference and categorisation are stable). One indication of that is the g...

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Main Author: Élise Mignot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2018-06-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1574
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