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6 - “See This Sitting One”: Demonstratives and Deictic Classifiers in Goemai

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2018

By
Birgit Hellwig
Edited by
Stephen C. Levinson ,
Sarah Cutfield ,
Michael J. Dunn ,
N. J. Enfield  and
Sérgio Meira
Stephen C. Levinson
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands
Sarah Cutfield
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Michael J. Dunn
Affiliation:
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
N. J. Enfield
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Sérgio Meira
Affiliation:
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
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Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective , pp. 134 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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