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Universal 1186:

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Universal 1186:

Original
Sun and wind provide important templates for expressions of cardinal orientation but apparently never for deictic orientation.
Standardized
When sun and wind provide templates for developing nomenclatures for orientation, they will be sources for terms of cardinal but not of deictic orientation.
Keywords
location, deixis
Domain
lexicon
Type
target < source
Status
diachronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
languages surveyed in Heine 1997
Source
Heine 1997: 57
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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