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The role of demonstratives across languages
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonMany 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 […]