Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives (Feature 32)

From Apics

Feature Annotation

Pronominal demonstratives substitute for a noun (phrase), as in I like that (one), and adnominal demonstratives accompany a (coreferential) noun, as in that book.
Values:
1. Pronominal and adnominal demonstratives are the same words, as in German (Ich mag dieses 'I like this one'; dieses Buch 'this book'). Note that if there is an obligatory dummy element in pronominal demonstratives, as in Tok Pisin dispela samting ‘this one’, this counts as different words (value 2).
2. Pronominal and adnominal demonstratives are formally distinguished in that they have different stems (for instance, in French celui and celle are used pronominally and ce and cette are used adnominally). If only one demonstrative is formally distinguished, please also select value 2.
If a language may use either the same word for pronominal and adnominal demonstratives or different words (i.e. overlap), like Nigerian Pidgin dis ,this’ and dat ,that’, but also diswon ,this’ and datwon ‘that’, please also select value 2. (English is like Nigerian Pidgin.)
3. Pronominal and adnominal demonstratives have the same stems but have different inflectional features.
"Demonstrative" is defined as in Feature 5 (see also APiCS Glossary, demonstrative).

Additional remarks

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Values

Value		Value Annotation
1	Same words	Chinuk Wawa úkukman ‘this man’ (adnominal) vs. úkuk wam ,this (one) is warm’ (pronominal).
2	Different words	Papiamentu e .... aki ‘this’ (adnominal) vs. esaki ‘this one’, as in Mi konosé e hòmber aki. ‘I know this man.’ (adnominal) vs. Mi kononsé esaki .‘I know this one.’ (pronominal)
3	Same words, but different inflectional features	In Turkish, the pronominal, but not the adnominal demonstrative inflects for case, e.g. Ali bun-u unut-amι-yor [Ali this-acc forget-cannot-prog] vs. bu gazete-yi [this newspaper-acc].
4	Other	(Please give details in the “General comments” field.)

WALS No.

42 (Total)