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Universal 1185:

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Universal 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
Counterexamples

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    1. May 2020

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