Accessibility

An indication of how accessible the Figure is to some participant in the speech context (either the speaker or the addressee, or some other highly salient viewpoint in a narrative). This FE normally describes availability for manipulation and use, but may simply describe how easily seen or difficult to see the Figure is. There is a closed class of items that can fill this slot, including only 'just' and 'right' indicating ease of access, and 'way', 'all the way', or (dialectally) 'clear' indicating distance and difficulty of access. Oh yeah , the flashlight 's right in my handbag. I had an uncle that lived clear over in Kenmore , and I tried to ride my bike there. While ease of access correlates with proximal deixis (e.g. 'right here') and difficulty correlates with distal deixis (e.g. 'all the way over there'), these notions are separable as shown in the following examples: I have two officers right over in the next room. You ca n't come way out here to my mom 's!