Re: Deictics was Re: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 8, 2002, 8:01 |
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Quoting Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>:
> --- wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> wrote:
> > Pablo David nevesht:
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> > >Japanese has three levels of deixis (this/ that/
> > >yonder) as you said, same as Spanish (este/ ese/
> > >aquel), where English has two.
>
> Funny that you say English has two; but write out
> three levels. ;)
I think what he said was accurate for the standard language.
A number of nonstandard dialects, however retain <yonder> as
a third level of deixis.
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