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Endeixis
Endeixis En*deix"is, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? indication. See Endeictic.] (Med.) An indication.

Meaning of Deixis from wikipedia

- anthropology, deixis is seen as the same as, or a subclass of, indexicality. The term's origin is Ancient Gr****: δεῖξις, romanized: deixis, lit. 'display...
- are topical to the conversation. Notes: Diacritics in deixis are not mandatory in Malagasy. Deixis marked by a * are rarely used. Malagasy shares much of...
- be understood without context. Demonstratives are often used in spatial deixis (where the speaker or sometimes the listener is to provide context), but...
- In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to parti****nt(s) in an event; typically, the distinction...
- visitor is Canadian' and 'the visitor is a Canadian' respectively. The deixis system has a proximal/medial/distal and a non-demonstrative/demonstrative...
- elaborate systems of "social deixis", or systems of signalling social distance through linguistic means. In English, social deixis is shown mostly through...
- addition of non-etymological u in closed syllables. There are three degrees of deixis, here/this, there/that, yonder/yon. Tolomako has inalienably possessed nouns...
- the key to understanding deixis, traditionally a difficult problem for semantic theory. In linguistic anthropology, deixis is defined as referential...
- Jeju (Jeju: 제줏말; Jeju RR: Jejunmal, or Korean: 제주어; RR: Jejueo, or 제주말; Jejumal), often called Jejueo or Jejuan in English-language scholarship, is a Koreanic...
- as "the teachers like the children". Yup'ik has a rich system of spatial deixis[broken anchor]. That is, many of the spatial properties of things and events...