German article-and-demonstrative profile (WALS Chs 37, 38, 41, 42, 43) #
@cite{wals-2013}
German (Indo-European, Germanic): definite der/die/das distinct from demonstratives; indefinite ein = numeral 'one' (phonologically reduced in speech); distance-neutral adnominal demonstratives (dieser and stressed der/die/das are deictically noncontrastive — distance expressed by adverbial hier/da); pronominal demonstratives inflect for case while adnominal co-occur with inflected nouns (different inflectional features); 3rd-person pronouns (er/sie/es) unrelated to demonstratives.
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