Empirical Perspectives on the Use of Hungarian Nominal Demonstratives

By: Toth, Eniko

Deixis and the use of demonstratives are widely studied topics across languages. The fundamental purpose of this book is to provide an account of the semantics and pragmatics of Hungarian nominal demonstratives by examining why a speaker opts for a given demonstrative form in a particular speech situation and by investigating how the meaning of a demonstrative interacts with contextual clues during the process of reference resolution. These questions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800504799
• ISBN13: 9781800504790
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.