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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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2018-06-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1574 |
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