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Deixis

Index of SIL publications on Deixis listed by country.

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General works

• Follingstad, Carl Martin. 2001. Deictic viewpoint in Biblical Hebrew text: a syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis of the particle kî.  
• Harmelink, Bryan L. 2004. Exploring the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic uses of vayhi in Biblical Hebrew.
• Heins, Barbara. 2003. "Observações preliminares sobre os demonstrativos na língua Sena."
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1993. "Anarthrous references to the Holy Spirit: Another factor."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Mozambique

• Floor, Sebastian. 2003. "Demonstrativos confirmativos."

Americas

Brazil

• Dooley, Robert A. 1983. "Spatial deixis in Guaraní."

Guatemala

• Watters, James K. 1993. Review of: Referential practice: Language and lived space among the Maya, by William F. Hanks.

Mexico

• Andrews, Henrietta. 1993. The function of verb prefixes in Southwestern Otomí.  

United States

• Leman, Wayne E. 1984. "Cheyenne deixis and sound symbolism."

Asia

China

• Bartee, Ellen Lynn. 1996. Deixis and spatiotemporal relations in Lhasa Tibetan.

Indonesia

• Barr, Donald F. 1979. "The use of deictics to identify participants in Bahasa Indonesia."
• Busenitz, Marilyn J. and Robert L. Busenitz. 1992. "Spatial deixis in Balantak."
• McKenzie, Robin. 1997. "Downstream to here: Geographically determined spatial deictics in Aralle-Tabulahan (Sulawesi)."
• Shelden, Deidre. 2002. "The Galela particle ’ka’: four deictic functions."
• van Engelenhoven, Aone. 1993. "On determiners in the Leti of Tutukei (Leti, Maluku Tenggara, Indonesia)."

Nepal

• Hale, Austin and Kedar P. Shrestha. 1996. "Deictic and non-deictic senses of kin terms in dhõcolecaa."

Pakistan

• Lothers, Michael David. 1996. Deixis in Kalam Kohistani narrative discourse.

Philippines

• Behrens, Dietlinde and Austin Hale. 1986. "Demonstratives and the plot in Yakan."  
• Jensen, Kristine and Rodolfo R. Barlaan. 1992. "A preliminary study of demonstratives in Aklanon narratives."
• McFarland, Curtis D. 2006. "Deictic pronouns in Philippine languages."  
• McFarland, Curtis D. 2008. "Deictic pronouns in Philippine languages."
• Revel, Nicole. 2006. "Memory of voice."  

Pacific

Australia

• Sayers, Barbara J. and Harland B. Kerr. 1964. "Wik-Munkan locative, temporal and demonstrative pronouns."

Papua New Guinea

• Colburn, Michael A. 1981. The functions and meanings of the Erima deictic articles.
• Cooper, Russell E. 1992. "‘That’s’ what I’m talking about: Discourse level deixis in Buhutu."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1994. "Synchronic and diachronic observations on Kewa and proto-Engan deictics."
• Pryor, Bonita and Cynthia J. Farr. 1989. "Botin deictics: Go and come."