Abstract
This paper explores the use of demonstratives in non-embedded clausal nominalisations. We present data and analysis from three Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family in south-east Indonesia. In these languages, demonstratives can apply to the clausal as well as to the nominal domain, contributing contrastive semantic content in assertive stance-taking and attention-directing utterances. In the Timor-Alor-Pantar constructions, meanings that are to do with spatial and discourse locations at the participant level apply to spatial, temporal and mental locations at the state or event level
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 380-408 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | Studies in Language |
| Volume | 35 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |