18_Noun Demonstrative

  Words: [cὺwá kà] [cὺwá sɔ́nɛ̰̀]
  Gloss: //chien dém// //chien dém//
  Translation: "Ce chien ci"(démonstratif de proximité)// "Ce chien là" (démonstratif d'éloignement)
  Comment: En tant que déterminant, il se subdivise en démonstratif de proximité et en démonstratif d’éloignement dans l’espace
  Contributor: Amoikon Dyhié ASSANVO

  Words: cὺwá kà
  Gloss: chien dém
  Translation: Ce chien ci"(démonstratif de proximité)
  Contributor: Amoikon Dyhié ASSANVO

  Words: cὺwá sɔ́nɛ̰̀
  Gloss: chien dém
  Translation: Ce chien là (démonstratif d'éloignement)
  Comment: En tant que déterminant, il se subdivise en démonstratif de proximité et en démonstratif d’éloignement dans l’espace.
  Contributor: Amoikon Dyhié ASSANVO

  Words:  *vajzë kjo
  Gloss: girl this
  Translation: this girl
  Contributor: Dalina Kallulli

  Words: Ho dè Té:re:s hoûtos ho toû Sitálkou patè:r prô:tos Odrúsais tè:n megále:n basileían epí pleon tê:s álle:s Thráike:s epoíe:sen.
  Gloss: the-NOM C Teres-NOM this-NOM the-NOM the-GEN Sitalces-GEN father-NOM first-ADV Odrysians-DAT the-ACC great-ACC kingdom-ACC upon more the-GEN other-GEN Thrace-GEN made
  Translation: This Teres, father of Sitalces, was the first to make the kingdom for the Odryssians greater than the rest of Thrace.
  Comment: Greek Text: ὁ δὲ Τήρης οὗτος ὁ τοῦ Σιτάλκου πατὴρ πρῶτος Ὀδρύσαις τὴν μεγάλην βασιλείαν ἐπὶ πλέον τῆς ἄλλης Θρᾴκης ἐποίησεν (Thucydides 2.29.2)
  Contributor: Eric Besson

  Words: Ahmed eshtera al-ketab hathak
  Gloss: Ahmed buy.PST DET-book that
  Translation: Ahmed bought that book
  Contributor: Shaikha Saeed

  Words: mobili belebele ninw
  Gloss: car big this.PL
  Translation: these big cars
  Comment: from BB 136
  Contributor: Bryan Villa

  Words: í malaŋ máná // málaŋ máná
  Gloss:  DEF 6onions AGR.DEM.PROX //H(tone).6onions AGR.DEM.PROX
  Translation:  ‘These onions (here)’
  Comment: Note that in the absence of DEF there is high tone spreading of (DEF) to the first syllable of the noun:
  Contributor: Paul Roger Bassong

  Words: * Ò töi libru chesctu
  Gloss: have.AUX.PRS.1 buy.PTCP book this yesterday
  Translation: I bought this book yesterday.
  Contributor: Andrea Cattaneo

  Words: (1) memu ama (2) mondu osha
  Gloss: (1) man that (2) woman that
  Translation: (1) that man (2) that woman
  Comment: Bole has masculine feminine demonstrative pronoun distinctions.
  Contributor: Alhaji Gimba

  Words: an nor-se
  Gloss: det door-here
  Translation: this door
  Contributor: Mélanie Jouitteau

  Words: Ñážiu wãã ni-ka -xáʔa ñuù
  Gloss: People that went-pass town
  Translation: ‘Those people went to the town’
  Contributor: Jess Combs

  Words: *chlap ten-hle
  Gloss: guy dem-reinforcer
  Translation: this guy here
  Contributor: Pavel Caha

  Words: A-jeni hinya a-iri
  Gloss: CL2-guests CL2.DEM CL2-two
  Translation: These two visitors
  Comment: Digo has 4 demonstrative 'series' with variant forms of three of these, giving up to 9 demonstratives per noun class.
  Contributor: Steve Nicolle

  Words: *χɐʣarɐ ači
  Gloss: house this
  Contributor: David Erschler

  Words: girk-a es
  Gloss: book.DEF this
  Translation: this book
  Contributor: Arwa Rangwala

  Words: na bāvelo oyā
  Gloss: DEF dugout-canoe DEM:3
  Translation: 'that dugout canoe'
  Contributor: Zhenyu Sun

  Words: shikpɔŋ nɛkɛ lɛ
  Gloss: land this DEF
  Translation: a plot (of land) of this kind
  Comment: the demonstrative normally occurs followed by the Definite marker. The consonant of the Definite marker is not pronounced in modern Ga, so that it is heard as a falling tone on a slight prolongation of the vowel occurring before it, in this case thus nɛkɛ́ !ɛ́ (where ! means downstep of high tone).
  Contributor: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

  Words: to pedhi afto
  Gloss: the kid this
  Translation: this kid
  Comment: The expression cannot introduce a new topic. It is grammatical when referring to a previously mentioned entity in the discourse.
  Contributor: Arhonto Terzi

  Words: arnaq una
  Gloss: woman that
  Translation: ‘that woman’
  Contributor: Stephen Mayeaux

  Words: àwù éhè
  Gloss: shirt this
  Translation: this shirt
  Contributor: Enoch Oladé Aboh

  Words: yela ŋa zaa
  Gloss: matters this/these all
  Translation: all these things
  Contributor: Geoffrey Hunt

  Words: dōkìn nân
  Gloss: horse.M this
  Translation: 'this horse'
  Comment: When the demonstrative functions as a determiner, the demonstrative (determiner) does not have gender/number sensitivity. (page 149)
  Contributor: Michael A. Estrada

  Words: hu henif degel ze
  Gloss: he hoist-PST flag this
  Translation: He hoisted this flag
  Contributor: Ur Shlonsky

  Comment: There are demonstrative pronouns in Hixkaryana (Derbyshire 1985:p. 7) but no demonstratives that co-occur with a noun (p. 26).
  Contributor: Laura Kalin

  Words: Í ritgerð þessari ætla ég að ...
  Gloss: In paper this intend I to ...
  Translation: In this paper, I intend to ...
  Comment: From Thráinsson (2007:88). Noun Demonstrative is sometimes used in "relatively formal and bookish" Icelandic (Thráinsson 2007:88).
  Contributor: Jim Wood

  Words: Tá an fear seo sásta.
  Gloss: Is the man this satisfied
  Translation: 'This man is satisfied.'
  Contributor: Bridget Nixdorf

  Words: gwókkɪ̀
  Gloss: dog-this
  Translation: this dog (Noonan 1992: 155 ex 1.)
  Comment: demonstratives can be suffixed onto the last word of the NP
  Contributor: Arwa Rangwala

  Words: gwôkk à dwóŋŋɪ̀
  Gloss: dog ATT big.SG-this
  Translation: this big dog (Noonan 1992: 155 ex. 2.)
  Comment: demonstratives can be suffixed onto the last word of the NP
  Contributor: Arwa Rangwala

  Words: òkélò òkwànò búk mân
  Gloss: Okelo 3s-read-perf book this
  Translation: Okelo read this book (Noonan 1992: 166 ex 2b.)
  Comment: demonstrative pronouns can also be used
  Contributor: Arwa Rangwala

  Words: maa too nii kin nam juu
  Gloss: dog CLF DEM eat water PROG
  Translation: This dog is drinking water.
  Contributor: Alif Silpachai

  Words: io trano io
  Gloss: DEM house DEM
  Translation: this house
  Comment: Each of the seven demonstratives in Malagasy must frame the noun phrase it is qualifying. As seen here, the demonstrative 'ity' appears both before the noun phrase and after. Very occasionally, the second demonstrative is absent.
  Contributor: Ed Keenan and Laura Kalin

  Words: ļeo e=ar jek wa kaņ.
  Gloss: the.man 3SG.AGR=PST make boat those
  Translation: The man made those boats.
  Contributor: Heather Willson Sturman

  Words: kimɑː-ɡɪ t-ɑːr-ɑː
  Gloss: child.SG-DEM.SG 3SG-came-PST
  Translation: 'This child came'
  Contributor: Jessica Chen

  Words: mɛ́n jʉ̄n lī
  Gloss: child this this
  Translation: this child
  Comment: The particle lī means that the noun is near the speaker
  Contributor: KEUPDJIO HERMANN SIDOINE

  Words: Cochi in piltzintli in.
  Gloss: sleep the boy this
  Translation: this boy sleeps
  Comment: There appears to be a part that precedes and a part that follows the noun /piltzintli/ 'boy'. Thus, this case only appears when both particles work together.
  Contributor: John Garcia

  Words: fyɛ̀p yə̀
  Gloss: 9.rat 9.DEF
  Translation: the rat
  Contributor: Jeff Good

  Words: bí.gàn kànáʔ
  Gloss: child+cm(ga)+n-dem cm(ga)+this
  Translation: 'this child' (9)
  Comment: All setting and examples come from the database from a two quarter fieldmethods class at UCLA in 1998. (Albro, 1998)
  Contributor: Hannah Kim

  Words: eci nana
  Gloss: yam this
  Translation: this yam
  Contributor: Jason Kandybowicz

  Words: kobieta ta
  Gloss: woman-nom.s.f dem-nom.s.f
  Translation: this woman
  Comment: commonly found with topics, e.g. There was a woman waiting at the bus stop. THE WOMAN was wearing a black coat.
  Contributor: Barbara Tomaszewicz

  Words: Cartea aceasta e interesantă
  Gloss: book-THE.F.SG this.F.SG is interesting.F.SG
  Translation: This book is interesting.
  Contributor: Oana Savescu

  Words: *Ja pročital knigu ètu.
  Gloss: I.NOM read book.ACC this
  Translation: I read this book.
  Contributor: Stephanie Harves

  Words: V restorane ètom ja uže byl.
  Gloss: In restaurant.PREP this I.NOM already was
  Translation: I was already in this restaurant.
  Comment: Note that the order Noun Demonstrative is felicitous in topicalized (i.e., non-neutral) contexts. Thus, this example is felicitous in a context where this restaurant has already been mentioned.
  Contributor: Stephanie Harves

  Words: pam i pa kamkeri
  Gloss: bag this copula rare
  Translation: This bag is rare.
  Contributor: Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare

  Words: *Leí novela esta
  Gloss: read.PST.1SG novel this.F
  Translation: Intended: I read this novel
  Comment: A demonstrative can occur after a noun with an adjectival function and in non-neutral contexts only: "Leí la novela esta". Such constructions always need a definite article and the demonstrative does not act as a determiner.
  Contributor: Violeta Vazquez-Rojas

  Words: *grisen denna/den här
  Gloss: pig.DEF this/this here
  Translation: this pig
  Comment: This order is not possible.
  Contributor: fredrik heinat

  Words: *grisarna de här/dessa
  Gloss: pigs.DEF these here/these
  Translation: these pigs
  Comment: This order is not possible.
  Contributor: fredrik heinat

  Words: babae-ng ito
  Gloss: woman-Lk Dem
  Translation: this woman
  Contributor: Edith Aldridge

  Words: jiwátsï wék-sïn-ti tsíkata-ni i-ni
  Gloss: coyote want-IPFV-3 hen-OBJ DEM-OBJ
  Translation: 'The coyote wants this hen'
  Contributor: Violeta Vazquez-Rojas

  Words: Gìnɛ́=gɛ
  Gloss: house=DEF
  Translation: ‘The house’ (161: 241c).
  Comment: From A Grammar of Tommo So by Laura Mcpherson (2012).
  Contributor: Hannah Kim

  Words: te mia iso
  Gloss: CORE person that:DIST
  Translation: that person
  Contributor: Mark Donohue

  Words: yĕndze aye
  Gloss: house this
  Translation: this house
  Contributor: Edmond Biloa

  Words: okutu ódzú eena a nŏ- ḿ
  Gloss: woman this here SM sick-INC
  Translation: This woman is sick
  Comment: In Tuki, as in some other languages, demonstratives co-occur with a locative reinforce inside NP.
  Contributor: Edmond Biloa

  Words: okuu ódzú dzu
  Gloss: woman this reinforcer
  Translation: ThIS woman
  Comment: another reinforcer Another reinforcer appears to be a diminutive form of the demonstrative. the reinforcer seems to lay emphasis on the demonstrative. That is the demonstrative is focalized due to the presence of the reinforcer.
  Contributor: Edmond Biloa

  Words: kO mE
  Gloss: man this
  Translation: this man
  Comment: mE: short form after N; prenominally augmented with nI (also occurring on prenominal possessors)
  Contributor: Hilda Koopman

  Words: Cái điê.n thoa.i này là cȗa tôi
  Gloss: The phone this is of me
  Translation: This phone is mine
  Contributor: Arwa Rangwala

  Words: I-:hashi lelo li-ya-gijim-a.
  Gloss: 5-horse that.DEM.AGR 5-PRES-run-PRES
  Translation: 'That horse is running.'
  Contributor: Esther Park