Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas

The purpose of the present paper is to establish pragmatic criteria which help in parsing syntactically ambiguous instances of a sequence of demonstrative pronoun and noun (D_N) in the Kamas text corpus. The paper also gives an account of the Kamas demonstrative system as encountered in the grammati...

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Main Author: Gerson Klumpp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2015-12-01
Series:Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/15191
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description The purpose of the present paper is to establish pragmatic criteria which help in parsing syntactically ambiguous instances of a sequence of demonstrative pronoun and noun (D_N) in the Kamas text corpus. The paper also gives an account of the Kamas demonstrative system as encountered in the grammatical, lexical and text records.
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spelling doaj.art-890d28844854482291f59bf1c63564462022-12-22T02:41:39ZengUniversity of Tartu PressEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri1736-89872228-13392015-12-016210.12697/jeful.2015.6.2.09Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in KamasGerson Klumpp0Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of TartuThe purpose of the present paper is to establish pragmatic criteria which help in parsing syntactically ambiguous instances of a sequence of demonstrative pronoun and noun (D_N) in the Kamas text corpus. The paper also gives an account of the Kamas demonstrative system as encountered in the grammatical, lexical and text records.https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/15191Kamasdemonstrativesdiscourse pragmatics
spellingShingle Gerson Klumpp
Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
Kamas
demonstratives
discourse pragmatics
title Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas
title_full Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas
title_fullStr Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas
title_full_unstemmed Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas
title_short Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas
title_sort resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in kamas
topic Kamas
demonstratives
discourse pragmatics
url https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/15191
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