Universal #496
Legacy number: 496
| Number | 494 |
| Original | Every human language has a stock of elements that shift their denotations depending on elementary features of the speech situation. |
| Standardized | Every human language has a stock of elements that shift their denotations depending on elementary features of the speech situation – i.e., deictics. |
| Keywords | deixis |
| Domain | lexicon |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | unspecified |
| Source | Hockett 1963: 21 |
Discussion
Notes
That is, every human language has deictic elements.
Comment
That is, every human language has deictic elements.
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