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Sunday, 14 June 2015

DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS

PERSON DEIXIS

Person deixis is deictic reference to the participant role of a referent, such as the speaker, the addressee, and referents which are neither speaker nor addressee.

Person deixis is commonly expressed by the following kinds of constituents: Pronouns, Possessive affixes of nouns and Agreement affixes of verbs.

- First person deixis is deictic reference that refers to the speaker, or both the speaker and referents grouped with the speaker.

The following singular pronouns: I, me, myself, my, mine
The following plural pronouns: we, us, ourselves, our, ours
Am, the first person form of the verb be