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Demonstratives and non-embedded nominalisations in three Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family

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San Roque,  Lila
Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Language documentation and data mining;
Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Schapper, A., & San Roque, L. (2011). Demonstratives and non-embedded nominalisations in three Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. Studies in Language, 35, 380-408. doi:10.1075/sl.35.2.05sch.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-1858-D
Abstract
This paper explores the use of demonstratives in non-embedded clausal nominalisations. We present data and analysis from three Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family in south-east Indonesia. In these languages, demonstratives can apply to the clausal as well as to the nominal domain, contributing contrastive semantic content in assertive stance-taking and attention-directing utterances. In the Timor-Alor-Pantar constructions, meanings that are to do with spatial and discourse locations at the participant level apply to spatial, temporal and mental locations at the state or event leve