The development of addressee agreement on demonstratives

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ID20344806
AuthorsLameen Souag (0000-0003-1233-6137, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume31
Issue4
Pages535-563
Publication date2014-12-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiachronica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/dia.31.4.04sou
OpenAlexW1975727050
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

The person-oriented nature of a demonstrative system can be marked explicitly by incorporating person markers into demonstratives. When these distinguish gender or number, this can lead to an unusual type of allocutivity: addressee agreement on medials. The latter development is cross-linguistically rarely reported, but is attested in Siwi Berber, Quranic and Rāziħ Arabic and arguably Imperial Aramaic. Examination of these and other languages shows a pathway whereby demonstrative systems gain addressee-anchored terms through grammaticalisation of a phrase including an oblique second person pronoun, occasionally producing addressee agreement. The semantic properties of allocutivity help explain the rarity of the latter result

Agreement · Arabic · Demonstrative · Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Oblique case · Phrase · Pronoun · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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