All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale

This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard

A Grammar of Darma provides the first comprehensive description of this Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, India. The analysis is informed by a funct