delimitative resultative delimitative function boundary marker demarcative feature boundary marker demonstrative pronoun

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 distant vs proximate (i.e. ‘near’ vs ‘far’), e.g. Eng. this: that, Ger. dìeser : jener, Fr. celui-ci: celuilà, Lat. hic: ille.