Abstract Although there has been growing interest in the study of demonstratives, a number of demonstrative categories remain largely unexplored. This article addresses one gap, presenting a preliminary typological overview of predicative demonstratives, a type of demonstrative used primarily in non-verbal predication constructions. The morphosyntax of predicative demonstratives is first briefly examined, followed by a typological characterization based primarily on semantic and morphosyntactic grounds. Predicative demonstratives focus on the immediately surrounding spatial, temporal, or textual environment of the speech act, showing restrictions on occurring in negated clauses or questions. In terms of lexical categorization, predicative demonstratives most commonly find themselves in a small closed word class of non-verbal predicators. Four types of predicative demonstratives are proposed here: Presentatives, identifiers, localizers, and the rare copular demonstratives.

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走向表语指示语的类型学

摘要 尽管人们对示范词的研究越来越感兴趣，但许多示范词的类别在很大程度上仍未被探索。本文解决了一个空白，呈现了谓语指示语的初步类型学概述，这是一种主要用于非语言谓语结构的指示语。首先简要检查谓语指示词的形态句法，然后是主要基于语义和形态句法基础的类型学特征。表语指示语侧重于言语行为的周围空间、时间或文本环境，显示在否定从句或疑问句中出现的限制。在词汇分类方面，谓语指示词最常发现自己处于非语言谓词的小型封闭词类中。这里提出了四种类型的谓词指示词：表示词、标识符、本地化词和罕见的连接指示词。