Spatial communication systems and action
Recent advances indicate that action is an important constraint on spatial communication systems and may provide a universal structuring tool for communicating about space across languages.
Spatial demonstratives – the earliest spatial terms – embody action and attentional components that may play a fundamental role in the development of social cognition and theory of mind more broadly.
The occurrence of demonstratives early in language evolution represents a confluence of gesture, social and spatial constraints unifying theories of language evolution.
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00262-6
