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Explaining observed variation in linguistic data and its correlates is a particular challenge when describing under-studied languages lacking huge corpora. The use of a certain variable may be conditioned phonologically or grammatically, but also by sociolinguistic factors ranging from speech registers to language contact phenomena.   In this talk, I showcase the various levels of […]

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 […]