What is deictic adverb in english grammar ?

Answer 1

Deictic Adverbs:
Prepositions that describe directional motion (towards or away from something)

Pro-forms (P):
1) Deictic Numerals (Pn) "That one, those two, etc. "
2) Deictic Adverbs (Pa) "here, there"
3) Deictic Pronouns (Pp) "This, that, these, those"
4) Non-Deictics Pronouns (Pnp) "I, we, he, she, it, they, etc."


In the sentence I want him to come here now, the words I, here, him, and now are deictic because the determination of their referents depends on who says that sentence, and where, when, and of whom it is said.

Answer 2

In linguistics, a deictic expression or deictic adverb, is an expression that refers to the personal, temporal, or spatial aspect of an utterance, and whose meaning therefore depends on the context in which it is used. The term was adopted by Charles Peirce from formal logic; it derives from the Greek word deiknýnai, meaning "to show."

There are many different kinds of deictic expressions; they include the personal pronouns (e.g., I, you), the demonstrative pronouns (e.g., this, that), and certain adverbs, such as here and there. In contrast to proper nouns and definite descriptions, which refer to real objects and states of affairs independent of their context, deictic expressions denote other linguistic signs in a given text, or extralinguistic elements in a given speech situation.

Among several near-synonymous terms are Russell's (1940) egocentric particular, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel's (1954) indexical expression, Jespersen's (1923) shifter, and Reichenbach's (1947) token reflexive word. See also deixis, and pro-form.

Answer 3

Prepositions that describe directional motion (towards or away from something) can also function adverbially:

elwy, "away" (a motive preposition, shows motion away from)
Ry elwy atwa, "I walk away."
ary, "towards" (a motive preposition, shows motion towards)
Ry ary atwa, "I walk forward."
tandy, "from" (a motive prepoition, shows motion from)
Ry tandy atwa, "I walk from out."