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Randy, could you please explain what you mean by deictic use? To my
mind, the reference in <i>let's meet on Thursday</i> works like <i>let's
meet at the town hall</i>, viz. 'the next thursday available' or '
the thursday currently of relevance', and the same with the town
hall. Of course, there is the difference of the definite article.
But this would then suffice, for English, to distinguish proper from
common nouns, and you would not need the deictic use. On the other
hand, the deictic use would work the same way for proper and common
nouns in an articleless language.<br>
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Anyway, maybe you mean something different.<br>
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