From space to anaphora: there and back again

We consider the anaphoric uses of demonstratives in Mehweb Dargwa, a language of the
East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. The main goal is to explore how the
primary spatial deictic meaning of demonstratives is refracted in the textual - anaphoric -
dimension. We identify this spatial motivation against the more general background of the
discourse factors affecting the choice of a demonstrative in Mehweb.