1.   The existence of two versions of the infinitive poses the problem of their status in the linguistic system of English.

2.   The other kinds of socially deictic information, however, can be encoded just about anywhere in the linguistic system.

3.   The symbolic meaning of a deictic term is its meaning as it functions within the linguistic system.

4.   But Chinese characters are so much part of its linguistic system that nearly all Koreans can write their names in Chinese characters.