Constraints on German 'diese' demonstratives: language formality and subject-avoidance

Demonstrative pronouns in German occur in various paradigms such as 'die, diese, jene, diejenige, dieselbe', etc. Among these only the most frequent paradigm, die, has received attention from psycholinguistic research. In this paper, we investigate constraints on demonstrative pronouns fro...

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Main Authors: Umesh Patil, Peter Bosch, Stefan Hinterwimmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-02-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/962