Sentence examples for the demonstrative in from inspiring English sources

depends in certain obvious ways upon such facts as the location (1) or identity (2) of the speaker, and/or the referent of the demonstrative (in 3).

Our conscious experience of the object to which the demonstrative refers provides us with a form of knowledge of the semantic value of the demonstrative, and thereby plays a role in justifying the use we make of the demonstrative in our reasoning.

His claim is rather that such experience has a role to play in justifying the patterns of use we make of the demonstrative in reasoning that we engage in where such reasoning reflects our grasp of the criteria of identity of the object referred to, which in turn reflects our grasp of the object as being mind-independent.

What makes them stand out is the exceptional neutrality of the demonstratives in subject position.

Tamil nouns can take one of four prefixes, i, a, u, and e which are functionally equivalent to the demonstratives in English.

Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish.

It is only for Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows, that have been replaced by Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center for Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7. 28 Pocket Controller 29 is used to display the screen of the demonstrative PDA in real time on a projection system to assist in conducting data collection in training sessions.

But the dependence of the Fe to Me ratio on the anion composition of the dispersion medium is the most demonstrative in cobalt-containing systems.

The effectiveness of the proposed control approach is tested on the demonstrative tractor, in all real conditions.

The problem was dealt with by the provision of extra premises which ensured that the very same things referred to by a true premise are the things referred to by the demonstrative phrases in the conclusion.

Kaplan analyzes the semantic rules governing the demonstrative 'that' in a similar way: relative to any possible context of use ⟨w, a, t⟩, an utterance of 'that' rigidly designates the object (if any) that is made salient by a's pointing gesture in that context [see the entry on indexicals for a more detailed discussion].