Universal #1190

Legacy number: 1190

 Number  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

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