Sentence examples for demonstrative function from inspiring English sources

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.

The commercial formulation was used for demonstrative purpose only.

For the demonstrative purpose, consider the situation of Δ f * = 0.1.

Although Austin doesn't take a stand on the matter, it would be an over-simplification to think that the demonstrative conventions must function independently of the descriptive conventions.

Whether the acts of presenting a benefactor with a thank-you gift or doing her a favor in the future serve only this demonstrative or expressive function is disputed (see section 3.4.2).

Smart, tough and demonstrative, she practically functions as Jobs' moral conscience, revealing his fallible humanity – or perhaps inhumanity.

And even if there is a need for the complementizer itself to function as a demonstrative, there is no need for it to be a demonstrative.

There is no need, at least not without other assumptions, that the apparent complementizer itself function as a demonstrative.

Davidson's idea is that 'that' in (16) functions as a demonstrative that refers to the utterance of the sentence that follows.

The demonstrative concepts I possess are a function of my demonstrative capacities and part of what explains my having a given demonstrative capacity is my having certain associated experiences; the experience must be prior to the possession of the demonstrative concept if the former is to explain the latter (Heck 2000).

Use a demonstrative speech to explain a process.