The demonstratives of a language allow a five-way (or more) distance distinction, relative to the position of the speaker or hearer.  [EXAMPLE]

<br><br><b>Reference</b><br>
Diessel, Holger. 2008. Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives.
In Haspelmath et al (2008), chapter 41. Available online at <a href="http://wals.info/feature/41">
http://wals.info/feature/41</a href>.
