0 If you are demonstrative, you show your feelings or behave in a way that shows your love: --
We're a very demonstrative family.
1 Demonstrative words are words, for example "this", "that", "these", and "those", that show which person or thing is being referred to: --
2 to show something or make something clear: --
4 behaving in a way that clearly shows your feelings: --
She was always a demonstrative child.
The linguistic form was coded as null reference, pronoun (including demonstratives), noun (with definite or indefinite or no determiner), or nonverbal only (pointing gesture with no language).
Table 6 shows the results for use of -s in the 121 contexts in which these nonstandard demonstratives are used across the three groups of speakers.
As also shown in (20a-b), not all demonstratives can refer to a proposition, and the examples become ungrammatical if totan and ageku occur with other demonstratives, such as ano.
One of the main findings of the study is that in a collaborative task with distributed objects, adults use more demonstratives per utterance than children.
Numerals precede the nouns they modify, but adjectives and demonstratives follow the head noun.
Pronouns and demonstratives in the penultimate sentence clearly refer to individuals in the world of football.
As shown above, ha- can combine with all kinds of nominals, including nouns, adjectives, numerals and demonstratives.
Pictures are used as evidence, demonstratives, and for argument.
