As so often in the book, Paterson uses the unattached demonstrative to indicate a long, complex sentence that includes obscure elements.
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.
In the following, the three fragments of the example scenario are detailed and used for the demonstrative objectives elicited above.
The pronouns of the 1st and 2nd persons still had distinctive dual forms: There were two demonstratives: sē, sēo, thaet, meaning "that," and thes, thēos, this, meaning "this," but no articles, the definite article being expressed by use of the demonstrative for "that" or not expressed at all.
Others go further and say that only contents that could naturally be expressed using a demonstrative expression putatively referring to the seen object will be adequate to this phenomenology.
With regard to the relatives of identity, Peter adds a dicussion of a number of questions about the rationale for using demonstrative pronouns, and some problems concerning how the fallacy of a relative having two diverse referents comes about.
N = 60 subjects were tested with a larger, smaller, or equally sized 'demonstrator', using a momentary head-and-gaze turn, while N = 15 subjects were tested using sustained demonstrative cues.
Indeed, it is quite intuitive that one might truly report another's beliefs using a demonstrative to refer to something that agent is not in a position to refer to demonstratively in any way whatsoever.
I need some further proposition or propositions that will establish an appropriate link or connection between past and future, and take me from (1) to (2) using either demonstrative reasoning, concerning relations of ideas, or probable reasoning, concerning matters of fact.
Strawson used the argument to support the related thesis that demonstrative identification is fundamental to our ability to identify and hence refer to, in speech and thought, individuals.
