Deixis: Deixis
| Values: | Prox | Dist |
Dem The demonstratives express their deictic reference point, showing their space location in relation to the speech act (distance/person-oriented). The demonstrative appears in a noun phrase coding spatial orientation and position of the element in discussion with respect to the hearer and speaker. They do not have a fixed order; they may appear before or after the noun or appear as the head of a NP.
Prox: Proximal
Close to the speaker or the hearer
Examples
- omouret xop kowa to ke “My grandson, shoot this arrow, he said”
Dist: Distant
Distant from the
Examples
- mẽrõ oet pẽrẽri xop “That one is smaller than this one”
Diffs
Prague Dependency Treebank
The PDT tagset does not distinguish Ptan from Plur and Coll from Sing,
therefore this distinction is not being made in the converted data.
Deixis in other languages: [aqz] [bej] [hy] [mpu] [qpm] [u] [xcl]