The auditory demonstrative in Khaling

Demonstrative Pronouns in Natural Discourse

We examine demonstrative pronouns in a portion of the Santa Barbara Corpus of American English and propose a coding scheme that classifies pronouns with nominal as well as non-nominal antecedents into direct and indirect, depending on whether their referent is the same as the referent/denotation of the antecedent. In agreement with previous studies, we find that demonstratives more often have n...

The Role of Perception in Demonstrative Reference

Resolving Demonstrative Anaphora in the TRAINS93 Corpus

This paper reports the results of a first-pass annotation exercise of third-person pronouns in the TRAINS spoken dialog corpus. Our research goal is to disambiguate demonstrative pronouns that/this, and the annotation project is undertaken with the intent to find surface features that can be used to strongly prefer/disprefer certain potential referents. Pragmatic differences between demonstrati...

Aristotle’s Demonstrative Logic

Demonstrative logic, the study of demonstration as opposed to persuasion, is the subject of Aristotle’s twovolume Analytics. Many examples are geometrical. Demonstration produces knowledge (of the truth of propositions). Persuasion merely produces opinion. Aristotle presented a general truth-and-consequence conception of demonstration meant to apply to all demonstrations. According to him, a de...

Indefinite Demonstrative Dieser in German

This work offers experimental support for the hypothesis that some indefinite noun phrases do not only introduce new referents but also equip them with a certain ‘forward-looking potential’ which informs the hearer about the ‘importance’ of the referent in the subsequent discourse. Developing means to empirically account for the intuitions that exist with respect to English this-indefinites, I ...