The phrase "a demonstrative or" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to assess its correctness in written English.
It could be used in a discussion about types of demonstrative pronouns or adjectives, but it needs additional information to clarify its meaning.
Example: "In English, a demonstrative or an interrogative pronoun can change the meaning of a sentence."
Alternatives: "a demonstrative pronoun" or "a demonstrative adjective".
A syllogism that meets these conditions is called a demonstrative syllogism or demonstration and will provide explanatory knowledge of its conclusion.
Thus, for predicativists like Burge and Fara, the semantic value of a name in the subject place is equivalent to that of a complex demonstrative or an incomplete definite description.
For the historical source of 呢 ne, it could be from 聻 ni 'that' in pre-modern Chinese (Ota 太田辰夫 1987), preserving a demonstrative function, or from 裏/里 li 'place' (Ota 太田辰夫 1987), conveying a locative meaning.
To my mind, the most exciting moment in this football season was not a demonstrative QB sack or a bruising, Ironhead-like run, or even a perfectly executed Hail Mary, but a punt return.
Of course, this knowledge has an essential demonstrative or indexical component.
When a noun is preceded by a number, a demonstrative such as this or that, or certain quantifiers such as every, a classifier must normally be inserted before the noun.
Furthermore, count-classifiers are used with an "unexpectedly low frequency"; in many settings, speakers avoid specific classifiers by just using a bare noun (without a number or demonstrative) or using the general classifier gè.
A singular term, such as a proper name or a demonstrative pronoun, is a term that signifies exactly one individual thing.
He is not a demonstrative man either on screen or off, so it can appear that he has achieved success by stealth.
And on the other hand, it is plain that they are 'introduced into discussion' by way of a plural substantival expression, e.g. by the definite description 'the fish in Georgian Bay', or by a demonstrative such as 'those fish'.
