Universal 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
- Counterexamples
That is, every human language has deictic elements.