Glossary term T

Third Person Deixis

Third person deixis is deictic reference to a referent(s) not identified as the speaker or addressee.

  • he
  • she
  • they
  • the third person singular verb suffix -s

    He sometimes flies.

More specific concepts within third person deixis.

  1. Crystal 1980, 263
  2. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 263
  3. Mish 1991, 1227
  4. Levinson 1983, 62
  5. Anderson, S. and Keenan 1985, 261–262
  6. Fleming 1988, 322
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