Re: Deictics was Re: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, wayne chevrier wrote:

> Pablo David nevesht:
>
> >Japanese has three levels of deixis (this/that/yonder)
> >as you said, same as Spanish (este/ese/aquel), where
> >English has two. A more complicated system, anybody? :)
> >
> Inuktitut:that up there, that over there, that to my left, &c.
> several other languages have as complicated deictic systems and some have
> only one(this or that),if two this/that or visible/not-visible or the first
> to be mentioned/the second, and i am certain there are distinction I haven't
> included.
Hungarian has four simple ones: "ez" (this), "az" (that), "emez" (this one
here) and "amaz" (that one there). There are also some complex forms, like
"ez itt" (=emez), "ez ott" (this one over there) and so forth.

---ferko