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    anthropology, deixis is seen as the same as, or a subclass of, indexicality. The term's origin is Ancient Greek: δεῖξις, romanized: deixis, lit. 'display...
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  • be understood without context. Demonstratives are often used in spatial deixis (where the speaker or sometimes the listener is to provide context), but...
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  • are topical to the conversation. Notes: Diacritics in deixis are not mandatory in Malagasy. Deixis marked by a * are rarely used. Malagasy shares much of...
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  • In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction...
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  • The term "deixis" refers to the ways in which language encodes contextual information into its grammatical system. More broadly, deixis refers to the...
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    elaborate systems of "social deixis", or systems of signalling social distance through linguistic means. In English, social deixis is shown mostly through...
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  • visitor is Canadian' and 'the visitor is a Canadian' respectively. The deixis system has a proximal/medial/distal and a non-demonstrative/demonstrative...
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  • the key to understanding deixis, traditionally a difficult problem for semantic theory. In linguistic anthropology, deixis is defined as referential...
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  • of not articulating high vowels after nasals. There are three degrees of deixis, here/this, there/that, yonder/yon. Tolomako has inalienably possessed nouns...
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  • Tifal is an Ok language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Tifal (Tifalmin), Urap (Urapmin) and Atbal (Atbalmin). The Tifal language is bounded by...
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    Seneca (/ˈsɛnəkə/; in Seneca, Onöndowaʼga꞉ʼ Gawë꞉noʼ, or Onötowáʼka꞉) is the language of the Seneca people, one of the Six Nations of the Hodinöhsö꞉niʼ...
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    tables show the Akkadian demonstrative pronouns according to near and far deixis: Relative pronouns in Akkadian are shown in the following table: Unlike...
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  • Euro English (section Deixis)
    Euro English, Euro-English or European English, less commonly known as EU English, Continental English and EU Speak, is a group of dialects of the English...
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    (1982). "Deixis and subjectivity: Loquor, ergo sum?". In Jarvella, Rovert J.; Klein, Wolfgang (eds.). Speech, place, and action: Studies in deixis and related...
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  • they did. Gregson's most recent novel, After Silence, was published by Deixis Press in August 2022. Set during the Siege of Leningrad, the story focuses...
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  • addition to the personal deixis (pronoun and possessive) series above, Nduke has classes of words for spatial and time deixis. Sources for documentation...
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  • The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe...
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    Atakapa (/əˈtækəpə, -pɑː/, natively Yukhiti) is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby coastal eastern Texas. It was spoken...
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    number of the subject by a prefixal concordpronoun on the verb. Locative deixis pays careful attention to the relative position (both horizontal and vertical)...
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    writing). ISBN 978-0-415-18589-9. Kupreyev, Maxim N. (2022) [copyright: 2023]. Deixis in Egyptian: The Close, the Distant, and the Known. Brill. p. 3. "What Is...
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  • aúta-lo i-òro auta-in 3SG.RL-go.inland 'He went in auta direction' Spatial deixis describes how speakers can 'point out' the location of an object in relationship...
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    and to make new ones like them." — Meditations. iv. 36. – Marcus Aurelius Deixis Extrospection Introspection List of cognitive biases Metaphysics of presence...
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    Jeju (Jeju: 제줏말; Jeju RR: Jejun-mal, or Korean: 제주어; RR: Jeju-eo, or 제주말; Jeju-mal), often called Jejueo or Jejuan in English-language scholarship, is...
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  • as "the teachers like the children". Yup'ik has a rich system of spatial deixis[broken anchor]. That is, many of the spatial properties of things and events...
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    The English pronouns form a relatively small category of words in Modern English whose primary semantic function is that of a pro-form for a noun phrase...
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  • grammar of whatever language. Language users have high-level reference (or deixis), the ability to refer to things or states of being that are not in the...
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    indefinite pronouns are: The demonstratives distinguish three degrees of deixis (proximate, distal, remote) and simple ('this', 'that', etc.) and particular...
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  • Buru or Buruese (Buru: li fuk Buru) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Central Maluku branch. In 1991 it was spoken by approximately 45,000 Buru people...
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  • (linguistics) – Use of an expression whose interpretation depends on context Deixis – Words requiring context to understand their meaning Pro-drop language –...
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  • Context principle Context-sensitive language Conversational scoreboard Deixis Opaque context Goodwin, Charles; Duranti, Alessandro, eds. (1992). "Rethinking...
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