[Lingtyp] nouns denoting months and days of the week

[Christian Lehmann]

Randy, could you please explain what you mean by deictic use? To my 
mind, the reference in /let's meet on Thursday/ works like /let's meet 
at the town hall/, 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.

Anyway, maybe you mean something different.
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