Questions tagged [deixis]

So basically I have this text and it states: "Our study shows ..." While it only focused on ..., the findings are also thought to hold true for other ... It involved only college students, ... (Certain words are omitted for a reason) Now the 'It'…

Just the converse of this question, really: are there any spoken languages that don't have distinct proximal and distal pronouns (or affixes)? (I limit it to spoken languages, because as this answer notes, in signed languages one can just point. I…

Currently, I'm writing a thesis on deixis and I ran into trouble while dealing with some rather borderline cases in my corpus. I would appreciate your opinions on the utterances below. After, such as in (1) is traditionally considered a deictic…

Currently, I am doing some research on indexicals, by which I mean words like: I here now today, tomorrow, yesterday local present, current For ease of reference, let’s call these the ‘standard’ indexicals. The few languages with which I’m…