Indexkontraste
Indexkontraste is a term used in linguistics to describe the systematic differences and similarities between indexical expressions in a language. Indexicals are words and morphemes whose reference shifts according to context, such as pronouns, demonstratives, time adverbs, and other deictic elements. The concept encompasses how languages encode perspective, grounding, and reference through these expressions and how contrasts between different indexical forms organize meaning within discourse.
The study of indexkontraste typically covers several dimensions. Person deixis includes distinctions like first, second, and
Methods used to analyze indexkontraste include corpus analysis, typological surveys, psycholinguistic experiments, and formal semantic modeling.
Applications of indexkontraste research appear in fields such as machine translation, dialogue systems, and user-interface localization,
See also: deixis, indexicality, demonstratives, pragmatics, semantics.