• Demonstratives (abbreviated DEM) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities...
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  • its reference. Examples in English include articles (the and a/an), demonstratives (this, that), possessive determiners (my, their), and quantifiers (many...
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  • Demonstrative evidence is evidence in the form of a representation of an object. This is, as opposed to, real evidence, testimony, or other forms of evidence...
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  • functionalists point out, however, these words function as personal references, demonstratives, and reflexives, just as pronouns do in other languages. Japanese has...
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  • heuristic reasoning. Defeasible reasoning is a particular kind of non-demonstrative reasoning, where the reasoning does not produce a full, complete, or...
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  • the free dictionary. This may refer to: This, the singular proximal demonstrative pronoun This (Egypt), or Thinis, an ancient city in Upper Egypt This...
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  • are part of a broader category called determiners, which also include demonstratives, possessive determiners, and quantifiers. In linguistic interlinear...
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  • personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, relative and interrogative pronouns, and indefinite pronouns...
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  • can be used as a demonstrative pronoun, demonstrative adjective, conjunction, relative word, and an intensifier. That as a demonstrative pronoun refers...
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  • and addressee.' Pukapukan also has the demonstrative particle ia meaning 'aforementioned.' These demonstrative particles form compounds with the singular...
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  • independent words and occur in three basic types: demonstrative modifiers, pointing demonstratives, and demonstrative pronouns.: 143  All of the determiners have...
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  • hypothesised forms. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) pronouns, especially demonstrative pronouns, are difficult to reconstruct because of their variety in later...
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  • third person pronouns, but its demonstratives play their role when they stand independently of a substantive. The demonstrative pronouns just like the personal...
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  • too; in Chinese, they are commonly used when a noun is preceded by a demonstrative (word meaning "this" or "that"). Some Asian languages like Zhuang, Hmong...
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    speaker) Demonstrative adverbs in Iban are closely related to the demonstrative pronouns in Iban grammar. For example, corresponding to the demonstrative pronouns...
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  • Kühner's 1844 grammar, organized non-personal pronouns (interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite/quantifier, relative) in a table of "correlative" pronouns...
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  • verbal demonstratives and deictic adverbs below). Vaeakau-Taumako demonstratives have cognates in other Polynesian languages. These demonstratives are also...
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  • Auxiliary verbs Coverbs Conjunctions Determiners (Articles, quantifiers, demonstratives, and possessives) Measure words or classifiers Adpositions (prepositions...
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    sketching, image modification and identification, courtroom drawings, demonstrative evidence, and postmortem and facial approximation aids. It is rare for...
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  • Rapa Nui does not have one class of demonstratives, instead it has four classes of particles with demonstrative functions. Each class is made up of three...
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  • of both is identical, and both share the same article and the same demonstrative pronouns. There are clearer grammatical differences in the definite...
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  • basic categories: Determiner demonstratives Qualifying demonstratives Locative demonstrative adverbs Situational demonstrative adverbs A case can also be...
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  • /ɡəʔ/ [gə̯] is a very special demonstrative that is used alongside a separate set of proximal and distal demonstratives. geq8 can indicate referents appearing...
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    deliberative (political), forensic (judicial), and epideictic (ceremonial or demonstrative). Similarly, the Roman philosopher and orator Cicero categorized public...
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  • case. Pronouns are classified as: personal, possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, reflexive, universal, negative, indefinite and relative. In Bulgarian...
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  • are four attested demonstrative pronouns in Mavea: aro, nel(e), maro, and male. Aro and nel(e) can also function as demonstrative determiners, and aro...
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    feminine singular definite article a with the preposition a or the demonstrative aquele and its inflections and derivations (aquela, aquilo, aqueles...
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  • with an article (*the my car) or other definite determiner such as a demonstrative (*this my car), although they can combine with quantifiers in the same...
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  • the demonstrative particles are a- (அ), i- (இ), and u- (உ) (archaic and has fallen out of use, except in Sri Lankan dialects). These demonstrative particles...
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  • languages, the demonstrative pro-forms function as correlatives with the relative pro-forms, as autant–que in French; in English, demonstratives are not used...
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