Universal #1189

Legacy number: 1189

 Number  1185
 Original  Terms for deictic orientation may themselves serve as models for developing nomenclatures for cardinal orientation, but not vice versa.
 Standardized  When terms for deictic and cardinal orientation are related, the terms for cardinal orientation are derived from terms for deictic orientation, but not vice versa.
 Keywords  orientation, deixis
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  target < source
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Heine 1997
 Source  Heine 1997: 57

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