Most work on deictical expressions primarily addresses their meaning and the way in which this meaning interacts with various types of contextual information. There is much less work on their syntactical characteristics and how these relate to their functions. In this paper categorial properties of deictic articles and pronouns on the one hand, and dependent and autonomous variants of deictic spatial and temporal adverbs on the other, are identified and described. The description is based on features which in both cases distinguish functional variants from variants which at the same time exhibit properties of lexical and functional categories.