Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri (Dec 2015)
Resolving ambiguity of demonstrative use in Kamas
Abstract
The purpose of the present paper is to establish pragmatic criteria which help in parsing syntactically ambiguous instances of a sequence of demonstrative pronoun and noun (D_N) in the Kamas text corpus. The paper also gives an account of the Kamas demonstrative system as encountered in the grammatical, lexical and text records.
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