Demonstratives in discourse Edited by Åshild Næss Anna Margetts Yvonne Treis language Topics at the Grammar­Discourse science press Interface 6 Topics at the Grammar­Discourse Interface Editors: Philippa Cook (University of Göttingen), Anke Holler (University of Göttingen), Cathrine Fabricius­Hansen (University of Oslo) In this series: 1. Song, Sanghoun. Modeling information structure in a cross­linguistic perspective. 2. Müller, Sonja. Distribution und Interpretation von Modalpartikel­Kombinationen. 3. Bueno Holle, Juan José. Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation. 4. Parikh, Prashant. Communication and content. 5. Balogh, Kata, Anja Latrouite & Robert D. Van Valin‚ Jr. (eds.) Nominal anchoring: Specificity, definiteness and article systems across languages. 6. Næss, Åshild, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis (eds.). Demonstratives in discourse. ISSN: 2567­3335 Demonstratives in discourse Edited by Åshild Næss Anna Margetts Yvonne Treis language science press Næss, Åshild, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis (eds.). 2020. Demonstratives in discourse (Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 6). Berlin: Language Science Press. This title can be downloaded at: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/282 © 2020, the authors Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ISBN: 978-3-96110-286-0 (Digital) 978-3-96110-287-7 (Hardcover) ISSN: 2567-3335 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4054814 Source code available from www.github.com/langsci/282 Collaborative reading: paperhive.org/documents/remote?type=langsci&id=282 Cover and concept of design: Ulrike Harbort Typesetting: Yvonne Treis, Sebastian Nordhoff, Ahmet Bilal Özdemir Proofreading: Alexia Fawcett, Amir Ghorbanpour, Andriana Koumbarou, Barend Beekhuizen, Bev Erasmus, Christian Döhler, Carmen Jany, Franny Vandervoort, Geoffrey Sampson, Jeroen van de Weijer, Joseph Lovestrand, Kalen Chang, Lachlan Mackenzie, Madeline Myers, Natsuko Nakagawa, Ryan Ka Yau Lai, Siva Kalyan, Sune Gregersen, Tom Bossuyt Fonts: Libertinus, Arimo, DejaVu Sans Mono Typesetting software:Ǝ X LATEX Language Science Press xHain Grünberger Str. 16 10243 Berlin, Germany langsci-press.org Storage and cataloguing done by FU Berlin Contents Preface iii 1 Introduction: Demonstratives in discourse Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis 1 2 Beyond exophoric and endophoric uses: Additional discourse functions of demonstratives Ekkehard König 21 3 The use of manner demonstratives in discourse: A contrastive study of Wan (Mande) and Kambaata (Cushitic) Tatiana Nikitina & Yvonne Treis 43 4 Morphosyntactic and functional asymmetries in Vatlongos discourse demonstratives Eleanor Ridge 69 5 Tracking and recognitional use of Kalamang opa: Demonstrative of cognitive accessibility Eline Visser 103 6 Stsíkiistsi ki stsíkiistsi: The ubiquity of Blackfoot demonstratives in discourse Heather Bliss & Martina Wiltschko 123 7 Pilagá determiners and demonstratives: Discourse use and grammaticalisation Doris L. Payne & Alejandra Vidal 149 8 Referential shift potential of demonstrative pronouns – Evidence from text continuation Melanie Fuchs & Petra B. Schumacher 185 Contents 9 Psychologically distal demonstratives in Scandinavian are not “discourse new” Janne Bondi Johannessen 215 10 Space, contrast and joint attention: Demonstrative adverbs in Russian, Estonian and Finnish Tiina Nahkola, Maria Reile, Piia Taremaa & Renate Pajusalu 243 11 Manner deictics in quotative indexes of Finno-Ugric Denys Teptiuk 273 12 A typology of demonstrative clause linkers Holger Diessel & Merlijn Breunesse 305 Index 342 ii Preface This volume arises out of a workshop on “Discourse Functions of Demonstra- tives” held at the University of Oslo on 14–15 June 2018. The workshop call for papers asked for abstracts on “functions of demonstratives and related forms as discourse-structuring devices beyond their already well-described reference tracking and discourse-deictic uses” and elicited a range of responses from which an interesting and stimulating two-day workshop was put together. The editors would like to thank the Department of Linguistics and Scandina- vian Studies at the University of Oslo for their generous financial support for organising the workshop, as well as the participants who contributed to an inter- esting discussion and convinced us that a volume of papers from the workshop would be a worthwhile endeavour. Many thanks to Jozina Vander Klok, who was a member of the workshop organising team in 2018. Special thanks to the anony- mous reviewers of the chapters for their constructive criticism, to Melanie Burns for proof-reading the chapters, to Sebastian Nordhoff for his valuable support in formatting the book, and to the copy-editors who volunteer at Language Science Press for spotting remaining inconsistencies and typos in the manuscript. During the final stages of preparation of this book, one of the contributors, Janne Bondi Johannessen, passed away after a cancer relapse. Janne was a col- league of Åshild Næss at the University of Oslo and shared with Yvonne Treis an interest in languages of Ethiopia. She was a dynamic and productive linguist with a keen interest in corpus research, who contributed greatly to linguistic research in a number of areas. She was director of the University of Oslo’s Text Laboratory from 1993 and coordinator of the NORHED-project “Linguistic capacity building in Ethiopia - Tools for the inclusive development of Ethiopia” (2014–2020). Janne was a great champion for accessibility and inclusiveness in academic work, and she supported many students in pursuing an academic career, both through her supervision and by involving them in projects at the Text Laboratory. She ini- tiated linguistic capacity building and corpus building projects in different lan- guages including Saami, Heritage Norwegian in the US and Ethiopian languages. Janne completed the revisions of the paper included in this volume five months before she died. We dedicate this volume to her memory. Chapter 1 Introduction: Demonstratives in discourse Åshild Næss University of Oslo Anna Margetts Monash University Yvonne Treis LLACAN (CNRS, INALCO) 1 Discourse markers and their functions Over the last decades, there has been extensive discussion in the typological lit- erature of the functions and uses of demonstratives. It is well established that demonstratives are not restricted to referring to items in situational use based on concrete spatial parameters, but that discourse deictic, anaphoric/tracking, and recognitional uses are also common, if not universal, functions of demonstra- tives (see Himmelmann 1996; 1997; and Diessel 1999 for systematic overviews). Studies have shown that many parameters beyond location and configuration of referents and speech-act participants play a role in demonstrative choice. In particular, directing the addressee’s attention towards a target entity and prior knowledge of a referent either through the previous discourse or from the real world have been identified as relevant (see e.g. Burenhult 2003; Dawuda 2009; Diessel 2006; Enfield 2003; Hanks 1990; 1992; 2005; 2009; Küntay & Özyürek 2006; Özyürek 1998). The diachronic development from demonstratives to other types of markers with grammatical and discourse functions has also been extensively discussed (see again Himmelmann 1996; 1997; Diessel 1999). Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis. 2020. Introduction: Demonstratives in discourse. In Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis (eds.), Demonstratives in discourse, 1–20. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4055812 Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis This volume investigates discourse functions of demonstratives, that is, the type of functions demonstratives perform when they develop into discourse markers.1 The notion of discourse marker is not very clearly defined, and the question thus arises which functions they comprise, how they can be described, and to what ex- tent demonstratives and their functions match this description. In a broad-brush approach, discourse markers can be described as morphemes which deliver a meta-commentary on the discourse and establish and negotiate intersubjectivity. That is to say, discourse markers perform functions like directing attention as a means of establishing and maintaining joint attention, enabling the addressee to track participants through the discourse, indicating which parts of the discourse the speaker seeks to foreground and which are to be taken for granted, but also indicating the interlocutors’ epistemic stance towards or evaluation of a partic- ular portion of discourse (Englebretson 2007). Discourse markers communicate information like hey, I’m starting something new here, or you know this already, or this is the important bit, and here is what I think about this. They aid interlocutors in managing and navigating the discourse and in positioning themselves with regards to what is being said. 2 Origins of discourse markers: Lexicon vs. grammar Discourse markers can originate from both lexical and grammatical elements, and as such they inhabit the interfaces between lexicon and discourse, but also between grammar and discourse. On the one hand, studies of discourse markers describe lexical items or phrases which are recruited into discourse functions, such as focus particles like only, even, also (König 1991), markers of discourse cohesion like yeah-no (Burridge & Florey 2002), or connectives like and (Schiffrin 2006) or toujours (Hansen 2006) to name