Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction to deixis and pronouns in romance languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical frame -- 2.1 The concept of deixis -- 2.2 Deixis and pronouns -- 3. Methodolical frame: Diasystematic distribution -- 4. Structure -- References -- Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigms -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Outlines of the history of the Greek personal pronouns -- 3. More on third person developments and their history -- 4. The role of person in the shaping of pronominal systems -- 5. Conclusion - Further perspectives on "Strong" vs. "Weak" pronouns -- References -- First person strong pronouns in spoken French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse-pragmatic functions -- 3. The strong pronouns and the syntax of spoken French -- 4. First person strong pronouns in spoken French -- 5. Prosodic features of moi -- 6. Moi-je, a variant of moi? -- References -- Corpora -- Preservation, modification, and innovation paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns - from Latin into modern Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Personal pronouns, Classical Latin and modern Italian -- 3. Main changes from Latin to modern standard Italian -- 3.1 Preservation, modification and reduction of distinctions -- 3.2 Description in five steps of the distinction between stressed and unstressed forms -- 3.3 Introduction of new forms -- 3.3.1 Introduction of ci, vi -- 3.3.2 Referential properties -- 3.3.3 The function of the unstressed/clitic pronouns -- 3.4 Introduction of new distinctions -- 3.4.1 The distinction ±HUM -- 3.4.2 The distinction ±formality -- 4. Diasystematic distinctions in modern Italian -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- On the grammar of kinship -- 1. Introduction.

2. Common nouns and kinship nouns in standard and dialectal Italian -- 3. Restrictions on the kinship construction -- 3.1 Plurality of the possessor -- 3.2 Plurality of the head noun -- 3.3 Modification -- 3.4 Focus -- 3.5 A note on further restrictions -- 4. A brief comparison with Scandinavian -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What do we mean when we talk about impersonality? -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 The generic area: 1st and 2nd person singular pronouns/endings -- 3.2 The membership area: The plural pronouns/endings -- 3.3 The indefinite area: The 3rd person -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- The Spanish impersonal se-construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies -- 3. Research questions -- 4. Theoretical framework -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Results -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Earlier observations of the on/nous alternation -- 3. Purpose and methodology of the present project -- 4. Problems in the data treatment -- 5. Analytic decisions -- 6. Results -- 7. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Clitic subjects in French text messages -- 1. Introduction - Preliminary remarks on culture and linguistic change -- 2. The status of French clitic subjects: (short) State of the Art -- 3. Research question -- 4. Data base: The Swiss corpus of text messages sms4science.ch -- 5. Corpus analysis: Results -- 5.1 General results -- 5.2 Subject inversion -- 5.3 Graphical agglutination or fusion of preverbal clitic elements -- 5.4 XP-cl-combinations in the corpus -- 5.5 Subject ellipsis -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1 General observations -- 6.2 Status of clitic subjects in the corpus: Pronouns or agreement markers? -- 7. Conclusion: Text messages, language change and linguistic change.

References -- The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Deixis in political discourse: Theoretical and methodological approach -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Quantitative analysis -- 3.2 Qualitative analysis -- 3.2.1 Political discourse spaces -- 3.2.2 The use of deixis -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 Overview of the chapter -- 2. The choice of social forms of address -- 3. Theoretical issues -- 3.1 Cognitive collages -- 3.2 Relational models theory -- 3.3 Conceptual metaphors -- 4. The data -- 4.1 Observations -- 4.2 Interviews -- 4.3 Questionnaires -- 5. The results -- 5.1 Mental representations: Forms, factors, cognitive processes -- 5.2 Variation across time and space -- 5.3 Conceptual metaphors -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clause -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State of the art -- 3. The relevance of deixis -- 4. From perception to presentation -- 4.1 Etymology of voilà, voici and ecco -- 4.2 The deictic relative clause before the Renaissance -- 5. Empirical studies -- 5.1 Corpus -- 5.1.1 French data -- 5.1.2 Italian data -- 5.1.3 Conclusions -- 6. Conclusions and perspectives -- References -- The marking of person deixis in the French future system - a diachronic approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Values of the future forms in French -- 2.1 Is the periphrastic future superseding the morphological future? -- 3. Data design -- 4. Evolution of the future system -- 4.1 15th century -- 4.1.1 Internal and external changes -- 4.2 18th century -- 4.3 20th/21st century (Written medium) -- 4.4 20th/21st century (Spoken medium) -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. Evolution of person deixis.

5.1 15th century -- 5.2 18th century -- 5.3 20th/21st century (Written medium) -- 5.4 20th/21st century (Spoken medium) -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Source References -- Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammars and demonstrative pronouns -- 2.1 Grammars without any mention of pronouns -- 2.2 Grammars that include cotesto in the group of personal pronouns -- 2.3 Grammars presenting questo/cotesto/quello as autonomous entities -- 2.4 Grammars presenting the ternary system and cotesto as the near-to-addressee element -- 3. The effective use of demonstrative cotesto -- 3.1 Reasons for the simplification of the ternary system. Dialectal influences -- 4. Conclusion -- Grammars -- References -- Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave -- 1.Introduction -- 2. Francesco Soave and the grammar -- 3. Personal pronouns by Benveniste and Soave -- 4. How does Soave treat the deictic functions of the demonstratives? What is the frame of his treatment? -- 4.1 Determiners in modern linguistics -- 4.2 Soave on 'determiners' -- 4.3 Soave on the functions of the definite article -- 4.4 Soave on the functions of demonstratives -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.