Deixis questionnaire
Description
The author describes the purpose of their questionnaire as follows: It is generally acknowledged
that perception of and orientation in space are determinant factors in human action and
interaction. As such, speech heavily depends on knowledge of the context: Where and When is a
sentence uttered, and by Whom. These three dimensions are traditionally seen as the so-called
deictic centre of all linguistic events, without which no linguistic expression can be properly
interpreted.
With deixis we mean here all cues provided by a language that localise a speech event and its
participants (Speaker, Hearer and narrated participant) in space and time. Anderson and Keenan
(1985) distinguish three major categories of deixis: person deixis, spatial deixis and temporal
deixis. The category linking social and psychological factors is tentatively labelled 'psychological'
deixis.
This questionnaire explores these questions in a manner directed at determining the typology
of deixis in the languages of East Nusantara.
The questionnaires
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Example for Leti
Example for Kei
Developed by
Aone van Engelenhoven for the 2000 East Nusantara Linguistics Workshop, workshop on deixis
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