Demonstratives are ubiquitous in the world's languages, but their range of extended functions often vary in interesting ways from one language to another. In this paper, we focus on the proximal demonstrative ‘this’ in Kerinci Malay to trace its uses beyond the referential domain. More specifically, we examine the extension of from its basic spatial deictic uses as a demonstrative pronominal and adnominal (i.e. determiner) within the referential domain to its more abstract and socio-interactional uses within the non-referential domain. Among these extended uses are: (i) lexicalized expressions (e.g. enumerating device , attention-getting device , and temporal adverbial ‘now’), (ii) discourse-framing expressions (e.g. topic marker and subordinate clause marker), and (iii) pragmaticalized epistemic stance expressions (e.g. utterance-final stance particle). Of special typological significance is the availability of a morphophonological and morphosyntactic mechanism in Kerinci Malay known as ‘phrasal alternation’ that distinguishes between Oblique and Absolute forms, which can be used to help disambiguate between referential and non-referential (including stance-marking) uses of demonstratives such as . Findings from this study have implications for our understanding of how the human mind tracks shifts in deictic uses.

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短语交替和 Kerinci 指示语 (i)neh：对空间和社会互动指示语的影响

指示词在世界上的语言中无处不在，但它们的扩展功能范围通常在一种语言与另一种语言之间以有趣的方式变化。在本文中，我们重点关注 Kerinci 马来语中的近端指示词“this”，以追踪其在指称领域之外的用途。更具体地说，我们研究了从其基本空间指示性用途作为指称域内的指示代词和副词（即限定词）到其在非指称域内更抽象和社会互动用途的扩展。这些扩展用途包括：（i）词汇化表达（例如枚举手段、引起注意的手段和时间状语“现在”），（ii）话语框架表达（例如主题标记和从句标记），以及（iii）实用化的认知立场表达（例如话语最终立场助词）。具有特殊类型学意义的是 Kerinci 马来语中的形态语音和形态句法机制，称为“短语交替”，可区分倾斜形式和绝对形​​式，可用于帮助消除指称和非指称（包括立场标记）用法之间的歧义的指示词，例如 . 这项研究的结果对我们理解人类思维如何跟踪指示用途的变化具有重要意义。