What is time deixis?

Time deixis is reference to time relative to a temporal reference point. Typically, this point is the moment of utterance.

• Temporal adverbs

  • now / then
  • yesterday / today / tomorrow
• Distinctions in tense

• What is deixis?

Levinson 1983 54, 62

Lyons 1977b 682

Context for this page:

• Concept module: time deixis
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): T
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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