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Demonstrative constructions include demonstrative adjectives or demonstrative determiners, which qualify nouns (as in Put that coat on) and demonstrative pronouns, which stand independently (as in Put that on).
The demonstrative determiners mark noun phrases as definite. They also add meaning related to spatial deixis; that is, they indicate where the thing referenced by the noun is in relation to the speaker. The proximal this signals that the thing is relatively close to the speaker while the distal that signals that the thing is relatively far.
The following is a list of English expressions which may have been influenced by Chinese. long time no see Is similar to the Chinese phrase 好久 ( long time ) 不 ( not ) 見 ( see ) ( Mandarin traditional ), 好 ( very ) 耐 ( long time ) 冇 ( not ) 見 ( see ) ( Cantonese ), 好久 ( long time ) 不 ( not ) 见 ( see ) ( Mandarin ...
The second demonstrative signifies "that" indicating relative distance from the speaker. It corresponds to Bantu 2nd. position. The first form has tone pattern [¯ _ ] and suffixes -o to the relative concord. sefofane seo ('that airplane') [sɪfʊfanɪse'ʊ]. This form is the one employed in indirect relative constructions
According to World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) writer Matthew S. Dryer, Mekeo is a mixed language type, meaning it does not follow a demonstrative-noun, or noun-demonstrative sentence structure, but has both. [9] Mekeo is spoken in the central province of Papua New Guinea. Kaki Ae is a neighbouring language of Mekeo.
Proto-Indo-European possessed few adjectives that had a distinct set of endings, identical to those of the demonstrative pronoun above but differing from those of regular adjectives. [10] They included at least * ályos "other, another" [ 5 ] (or * h₂élyos ?).
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Construction grammar (often abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned pairings of linguistic patterns with meanings, are the fundamental building blocks of human language.