Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Up/down, front/back, left/right. A contrastive study of Hausa and English 13
5. Da and the system of spatial deixis in German 43
6. Representations of local Ni-deixis in Swahili in Relation to Bühler's “Origo des Zeigfelds” 65
7. Some systems of spatial deixis in Papuan Languages 81
8. Local Deixis in Tolai 111
9. The system of local deixis in Spanish 133
10. On verb deixis in Hungarian 155
11. Demonstrative pronouns in Russian and Czech-deixis and anaphora 167
12. Deixis and anaphora in German dialects 187
13. Some remarks on Japanese deictics 209
14. Hopi Person deixis 223
15. Zur historischen Entwicklung der Personendeixis im Chinesischen 253
16. The deictic system of Diyari 273
17. Contributors 285
18. Index of Names 287
19. Index of Subjects 291