Demonstrative pronouns in spatial deixis, discourse deixis, and anaphora
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Linguistica Hungarica
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1216-8076,1588-2624
DOI: 10.1556/aling.57.2010.1.5