Syntactic category, subgroup of determiners with the semantic function of referring to things either in the speech situation (deixis) or previously mentioned (anaphora). In most Indo-European languages there are two parallel series for indicating...

Demonstratives Demonstratives are one type of indexical. Like other indexicals, demonstratives can be used to refer to different objects on different occasions. Some examples of demonstratives are that, this, you, he, she, there, then, this dog and that...

Demonstratives are deictic words (they depend on an external frame of reference) that indicate which entities a speaker refers to, and distinguishes those entities from others. Demonstratives are usually employed for spatial deixis (using the context of...