Demonstrative use in Dalabon Interactions (handout)
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Sarah Cutfield (Language Studies, Australian National University) reports on the exophoric (or, ‘spatial’) uses of the demonstrative in interactions in Dalabon, a non-Pama‐Nyungan language of southwestern Arnhem Land. Copyright 2012 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
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