Questions tagged [deixis]
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I'm going to school here (in this school)
Been going to school here for 3 years.
The Mission/Beavis H. S3E9
Is coming possible here, or is go to school as strong an idiom as bring to the table?
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Last night = the previous night / the night before
Page 516 of the Collins English Usage reads
A place clause usually goes after the main clause, but in stories it can be put first:
Where Kate had stood last night, Maureen now stood
Similarly, in ...
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Grammatical perspective: "go home" or "come home"
Husband and Wife are at home. Husband is going to point A and wife is going to point B later in the day.
Wife asks
After going to point A will you come to point B or will you go home?
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Me too or you too [closed]
I'm looking forward to seeing you.
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Me too. 〇
Nice talking to you.
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(nice talking to) You too.〇
I'm looking forward to seeing you.
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You too. ☓
Why is "You too" wrong?
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Ostensive gestures that accompany deictic sentences (Lakoff)
[Disclaimer before the fecal-storm starts: this is a post for people who believe ostensive gestures are not extralinguistic phenomena but a part of grammar, hence subject to grammatical rules.]
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Prepositions after, before etc. as temporal determiners
Huddleston and Pullum's CGEL (2002, pg. 356 footnotes) identifies last and next as (potential) members of the determinative category when used in temporal deictic expressions such as last week, next ...
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Using the indefinite article after a demonstrative pronoun
Why in the sentence
This is a great party!
use the indefinite article a rather than the definite article the? After all, the demonstrative pronoun This indicates that the conversation is about a ...
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Are there more relative directions?
6 common relative directions are front, back, left, right, up, and down. Are there single word names for relative directions between those 6 directions (as in another word for a direction between ...
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If left / right is laterality what is front / rear?
I want to write something like this:
Something can be differentiated by laterality [i.e. left - right dimension], by ___ [front - rear dimension], and also by the interaction between laterality and ...
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What is the difference between "this" and "that" in "How much is this/that watch"?
I am studying English and I would like to know the difference about "this" and "that" at this phrase translating to Portuguese.
In the image, the subject held the watch and said &...
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Hypernym for words that refer to a specific point in time like now, today, tomorrow, and yesterday
Second, minute, hour, ... all fall under 'duration'
But when you want to refer to a specific point in time, like 'now' or 'yesterday' (many languages go way further and have single words for 'next/...
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When you call someone, do you say "Is this Mr Smith?" or "Is that Mr Smith?" when that person picks up? [duplicate]
I feel it should be this since am talking to the very same person, but for some reason I see some people saying “Is that XYZ?”
What are your thoughts about this bit of phone etiquette?
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Can 'this', as in 'this day' or 'on this day' be used for future reference?
I have recently stumbled upon this sentence:
5th June is perfect. Do you think you can come this day?
The time frame of the utterance was more than two weeks before the date mentioned. And I am ...
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Time of orientation and deictic time
I am confused about the difference between To and Td in *CGEL's analysis of tense on page 126. Does Td shift to the moment of decoding as To does in the second example?
1- I am writing this letter ...
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We Indians often say "I finished my homework today itself", which I know is wrong. Which is the correct way to say it?
We use 'itself' to emphasize that the homework was done today, not yesterday. Nor was it delayed till tomorrow. What is the correct way to emphasize the fact that the homework was done today?
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