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The role of demonstratives across languages

1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, Princeton

Many traditional assumptions about demonstratives such as 'that' and 'those' and how they differ from definites like 'the' have been reevaluated in the recent semantic literature against cross-linguistic data. Taking one of the analyses for demonstratives under which they are definite descriptions with an additional restriction, this talk focuses on the question of what this […]

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