Abstract
This chapter examines a number of aspects regarded as the most significant in an overview of the deictic system of the Ladin variety spoken in the upper part of Val Badia, located in the province of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy). The main part of the chapter is devoted to spatial deixis, which exhibits a number of distinctive features especially in its adverbial system, illustrated after an outline of the binary adnominal and pronominal demonstrative system. The semantic and pragmatic value of the high number of locative adverbs and their possible combinations with other particles are clarified on the basis of deictic concepts, like relation to the deictic centre, and reference to the extra-linguistic situation, discourse and common knowledge. The deictic value of temporal expressions is subsequently explored, before finally turning the attention to free and clitic forms of the first and second person pronouns, regarding these as a distinctive trait of Ladin, and intrinsically deictic.