demonstrativeness

demonstrative | American Dictionary

demonstrative
adjective
us/dɪˈmɑn·strə·t̬ɪv/

demonstrativeadjective (IN GRAMMAR)

grammar
showing which person or thing is being referred to:
a demonstrative adjective
In “This is my brother,” “this” is a demonstrative pronoun.

demonstrativeadjective (EXPRESSING FEELING)

behaving in a way that clearly shows your feelings:
She was always a demonstrative child.

demonstratively

adverbus/dɪˈmɑn·strət̬·ɪv·li/

Examples of demonstrative

demonstrative
The children made use of pronouns or demonstratives in this way 24% of the time in their move-ons.
However, only 151 (65.7%) occur with determiners marked for gender (articles, quanti®ers, and demonstratives).
French has a rich system of basic determiners, including articles, demonstratives and possessives.
Moreover, demonstratives were also the prototypical subjects used in labeling, another frequent type of exchange in early adult-child exchanges.
We also leave aside the issue of demonstratives in this paper.
As for demonstratives and possessives, the question of generation site is still open.
The standard and traditionally basic use of the demonstratives is to refer directly to entities located in or derivable from the situation of utterance.
Pictures are used as evidence, demonstratives, and for argument.
As shown above, ha- can combine with all kinds of nominals, including nouns, adjectives, numerals and demonstratives.
Pronouns and demonstratives in the penultimate sentence clearly refer to individuals in the world of football.
Numerals precede the nouns they modify, but adjectives and demonstratives follow the head noun.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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