Adjective modifier

• social: The analysis of social deictics, in contrast, heavily draws on Japanese data and only provides supplementary analyzes of English examples.

Modifies a noun

• reference: These properties concern the capabilities of the cognitive system to realize deictic reference.

• gesture: A word may generate a deictic gesture plus an action gesture.

• expression: The linguistic forms of this pointing are called deictic expressions, deictic markers or deictic words; they are also sometimes called indexicals.

• word: There also the deictic function words which are closely related to bodily gesture.