Discourse functions of demonstratives in Eastern Bantu narrative texts

Demonstratives are an important feature of many eastern Bantu narrative texts. In addition to a basic tracking use, in which demonstratives are used to refer to different participants in a narrative, at least four additional functions can be identified: specifying the activation status (activated vs...

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Autor principal:	Steve Nicolle
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2014
Materias:	Bantu demonstative narrative Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1aac2e5ffe6544f69e014009e171de302021-11-19T03:52:25ZDiscourse functions of demonstratives in Eastern Bantu narrative texts10.32473/sal.v43i2.1072650039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/1aac2e5ffe6544f69e014009e171de302014-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107265https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XDemonstratives are an important feature of many eastern Bantu narrative texts. In addition to a basic tracking use, in which demonstratives are used to refer to different participants in a narrative, at least four additional functions can be identified: specifying the activation status (activated vs. reactivated) of major participants; distinguishing participants with agent semantic roles from those with non-agent semantic roles; distinguishing different kinds of participants and different episodes; and marking key thematic developments. These functions are described for 10 eastern Bantu languages based on analyses of original (i.e. non-translated) narrative texts.Steve NicolleLibraryPress@UFarticleBantudemonstativenarrativePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 43, Iss 2 (2014)
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spellingShingle	Bantu demonstative narrative Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Steve Nicolle Discourse functions of demonstratives in Eastern Bantu narrative texts
description	Demonstratives are an important feature of many eastern Bantu narrative texts. In addition to a basic tracking use, in which demonstratives are used to refer to different participants in a narrative, at least four additional functions can be identified: specifying the activation status (activated vs. reactivated) of major participants; distinguishing participants with agent semantic roles from those with non-agent semantic roles; distinguishing different kinds of participants and different episodes; and marking key thematic developments. These functions are described for 10 eastern Bantu languages based on analyses of original (i.e. non-translated) narrative texts.
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title	Discourse functions of demonstratives in Eastern Bantu narrative texts
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Discourse functions of demonstratives in Eastern Bantu narrative texts

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