Deictics was Re: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction
| From: | wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 7, 2002, 17:36 |
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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.
-Wayne Chevrier
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