- anthropology,
deixis is seen as the same as, or a
subclass of, indexicality. The term's
origin is
Ancient Gr****: δεῖξις, romanized:
deixis, lit. 'display...
- be
understood without context.
Demonstratives are
often used in
spatial deixis (where the
speaker or
sometimes the
listener is to
provide context), but...
- 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...
- In linguistics,
grammatical person is the
grammatical distinction between deictic references to parti****nt(s) in an event; typically, the distinction...
- The term "
deixis"
refers to the ways in
which language encodes contextual information into its
grammatical system. More broadly,
deixis refers to the...
-
elaborate systems of "social
deixis", or
systems of
signalling social distance through linguistic means. In English,
social deixis is
shown mostly through...
- of not
articulating high
vowels after nasals.
There are
three degrees of
deixis, here/this, there/that, yonder/yon.
Tolomako has
inalienably possessed nouns...
- 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...
- the key to
understanding deixis,
traditionally a
difficult problem for
semantic theory. In
linguistic anthropology,
deixis is
defined as referential...
-
visitor is Canadian' and 'the
visitor is a Canadian' respectively. The
deixis system has a proximal/medial/distal and a non-demonstrative/demonstrative...
