Spanish demonstrative determiners

The demonstrative determiners of Spanish locate the referent of their noun phrase near or in association with the speaker (este), at any distance from the speaker (ese), and away from both participants (aquel), which suggests distance and is rarely obligatory, since ese can replace it wherever space rather than time is concerned. The articles are not recorded here.

References

• [BBMR19]

def Spanish.Determiners.este : DemonstrativeDeterminer

este 'this', near to or associated with the speaker ([BBMR19] §7.4.1).

Equations

• Spanish.Determiners.este = { form := "este", deixis := Person.first.participantSets }

def Spanish.Determiners.ese : DemonstrativeDeterminer

ese 'that', at any distance from the speaker ([BBMR19] §7.4.1).

Equations

• Spanish.Determiners.ese = { form := "ese", deixis := Person.first.participantSetsᶜ }

def Spanish.Determiners.aquel : DemonstrativeDeterminer

aquel 'that over there', not used for things close to the hearer or the speaker ([BBMR19] §7.4.1).

Equations

• Spanish.Determiners.aquel = { form := "aquel", deixis := Person.third.participantSets }

def Spanish.Determiners.allDemonstratives : List DemonstrativeDeterminer

The demonstrative determiners, masculine singular.

Equations

• Spanish.Determiners.allDemonstratives = [Spanish.Determiners.este, Spanish.Determiners.ese, Spanish.Determiners.aquel]