Merlijn Breunesse
List of John Benjamins publications in which Merlijn Breunesse is involved.
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2023 Chapter 7. Iconicity in spatial deixis: A cross-linguistic study of 180 demonstrative systems Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse, Gentens, Caroline, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden (eds.), pp. 185–207 | Chapter
This paper presents a cross-linguistic analysis of iconicity in demonstrative systems. Several previous studies have observed that the stem vowels of demonstratives correlate with the encoding of distance (e.g. Woodworth 1991). Nevertheless, there is little systematic research on iconicity in… read more