| Autor: |
Bittner, Dagmar |
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Linguistics Vanguard; 2023 Supplement 2, Vol. 9, p215-227, 13p |
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The paper discusses the broad and seemingly diverse uses of the German D-pronoun. It is argued that the pronoun carries the invariant semantic feature [+distance] and that all its various uses are derived from this feature. That is, the D-pronoun expresses varying forms of distance between the referent of the pronoun and another discourse variable that functions as the perspectival center. The diverse uses of the D-pronoun arise from the specific ways in which the feature [+distance] is adapted to the relevant domain of application. Overall, the analysis considers seriously Jakobson's proposal that the grammatical architecture of language is built on invariant semantic features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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