Space and attention in the Kyrgyz demonstrative system

Based on novel empirical work on the Kyrgyz (Turkic) nine-term demonstrative system, this paper investigates the spatial uses of demonstratives and the relationship between demonstratives' attention-drawing and spatial denotations, which has been a fundamental question for the study of demonstr...

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Published inProceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 5944
Main Authors Ótott-Kovács, Eszter, Kubatova, Tolgonay, Saunders, Harrison, Washington, Jonathan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.05.2025
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ISSN2473-8689
2473-8689
DOI10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5944

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Summary:Based on novel empirical work on the Kyrgyz (Turkic) nine-term demonstrative system, this paper investigates the spatial uses of demonstratives and the relationship between demonstratives' attention-drawing and spatial denotations, which has been a fundamental question for the study of demonstrative semantic content (Skilton 2019, Levinson 2018). While Kyrgyz, similarly to Turkish (Küntay & Özyürek 2002, 2006), appears to have a specialized attention-drawing demonstrative indicating that attention-drawing and spatial denotations can be entirely distinct, careful elicitations reveal that attention drawing is derived from a (joint-attention) sociocentric distal meaning. 
ISSN:2473-8689
2473-8689
DOI:10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5944