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Datapoint for feature 41A and language wals_code_ger

Discuss WALS Datapoint for feature 41A and language wals_code_ger.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 at 4:31 am by wals and is filed under Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives, German. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. Daniel Fuchs Says:
    December 26th, 2021 at 1:42 pm

    We have two demonstrative articles: dieser/diese/dieses (masculine/feminine/neutral) is proximal and jener/jene/jenes is distal, although the latter is outdated and rarely used these days. But it’s still part of the language, so German should be classified as having two-way demonstratives. Der/die/das, as given in the examples, are the definite articles and can replace either of the demonstratives in informal German.

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