Enc¸(1981) took the position of treating common nouns as indexical words along with ich, heute, hier. The present paper attempted to show the problems in Enc¸'s(1981) solution which includes such nomimalizations as Raucher, Bergsteiger, Kaffeetrinke...
Enc¸(1981) took the position of treating common nouns as indexical words along with ich, heute, hier. The present paper attempted to show the problems in Enc¸'s(1981) solution which includes such nomimalizations as Raucher, Bergsteiger, Kaffeetrinker in the category of indexical words in modern German. An alternative solution with an incorporation of pragmatic concepts of 'observation interval' and 'act interval' was presented in the present paper.