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Publication details [#30272]
Agha, Asif. 1996. Schema and superposition in spatial deixis. Anthropological Linguistics 38 (4) : 643–682.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Indiana University
ISBN
0003-5483
Annotation
This paper focuses on the structure and use of spatial deictics in Lhasa Tibetan. It is argued that the total spatial effect of any deictic utterance depends upon the interplay between deictically schematized and contextually superposed effects.