Origo

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2012)

Look up origo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

In pragmatics, the origo is the reference point on which deictic relationships are based. In most deictic systems, the origo identifies with the current speaker (or some property thereof). For instance, if the speaker, John, were to say "This is now my fish", then John would be the origo, and the deictic word "my" would be dependent on that fact. Likewise, his use of the word "this" and "now" communicate his properties, namely his location and point in time.

Origo means "beginning" in Latin. It is the root for the English word "origin" and occurs in the phrase fons et origo which means "source and origin (of)".

This linguistics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e