Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 463-489

  Diessel, Holger ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deixis; Demonstratives; Evolution of grammar; Grammaticalization; Joint attention; Pointing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845632420     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2006.015     Document Type: Article

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