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Parallels between Deixis and Tense

Parallels between Deixis and Tense. Alexander Murzaku College of St. Elizabeth Morristown, NJ. Bühler’s Origo.

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Parallels between Deixis and Tense

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  1. Parallels between Deixis and Tense Alexander Murzaku College of St. Elizabeth Morristown, NJ

  2. Bühler’s Origo “I maintain that three deictic words must be put at the place of O, if this scheme is to represent the deictic field of human language, namely the deictic words here, now and I.” [Bühler, Karl. 1982. The deictic field of language and deictic words. In Jarwella, R. and W. Klein (eds.) Speech, Place, and Action. New York: John Wiley and Sons.]

  3. Origo in 3-D he/she – ai/ajo you – ti I – unë here këtu past present future there aty yonder atje

  4. Person-based deictic systems starting hypothesis: këtu ‘hic’ should co-occur often with first person expressions aty ‘istic’ should co-occur often with second person expressions atje ‘illic’ should co-occur often with third person expressions

  5. Top collocates for këtu

  6. Top collocates for aty

  7. Top collocates for atje

  8. Distribution of collocations

  9. atyre/ata anomaly ...ata të votojnë kundëratyre, të cilët e sollën shtetin… ...i përshkojnë njerëzit, kuratabashkohen dhe formojnë turmën? • atyre has large collocation scores with the word që ‘that’ (MI=3.57, T=10.39 and Z=12.78) and cilët‘which’ • ata is used as an anaphora whose antecedent is a collective noun behaving like the generic they in English

  10. Conclusions • Highest correlations: • Pronoun -> Distal • Distal -> Past • Determinant -> Proximal • Proximal -> Present • Functionality • Distal as anaphora in narrative style: low D • Distal as determinative: strong D • Proximal as pronoun in discursive style: strong D • Proximal as determinative same as article: low D

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