Demonstratives as dimension shifters

Christian Ebert; Cornelia  Ebert; Robin Hörnig

doi:10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.859

Demonstratives as dimension shifters

Authors

Christian Ebert
Cornelia Ebert
Robin Hörnig

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.859

Abstract

Drawing on earlier work by Ebert and Ebert (2014), we argue that co-speech gestures contribute non-at-issue information by default (cf. Schlenker, 2018), flesh out their proposal that gestural content can be shifted via demonstratives (i.e. demonstratives function as dimension shifters from the non-at-issue to the at-issue dimension), and present experimental validation for this claim.

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Published

2020-09-17

How to Cite

Ebert, C., Ebert, C. ., & Hörnig, R. (2020). Demonstratives as dimension shifters. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 24(1), 161–178. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.859