You must clarify what ‘little studied languages’ means. And in what area. Otherwise, the discussion is too vague and without a target, I am afraid.

You probably will have to look for papers in East Asian language reviews, and screen table of contents, because the keywords 'deictics' and 'anaphorics' are not commonly used outside of European culture. In many cases, the names referring to similar phenomena are translated from local grammars. For instance, my group used "L'emploi des désignatifs pronominaux dans les textes scientifiques et techniques japonais: l'anaphore" referring to Japanese linguistics denomination first.

Also, as suggested earlier, you should state in which frame you intend to work: do you deal with spoken language or written language, do you consider long range or short range anaphora ?

May be, the collection of scolars' works of the World Atlas of Language Structures on-line (http://wals.info/) will be helpful.  

You are welcome, dear Sylvain, I've received your message. WALS is a good project. 

Have good days!

Yes . It is a good project indeed, that should  be expanded. It would be nice to find very specific and detailed descriptions on points like the semantic of tense and aspect  ...; descriptions of units ( of any level : particles ... morphems of to the verb ...) related to linguistic représentations of time and space , (deictics/ anaphorics beeing only a section of it) This matters varie greatly even in very very closely related languages.... In Bunong there are 7 particles ( deictic/ anaphoric particles) giving information about location of points of space and time , but also about intersubjective relations (interlocutor  speaker versus "Speakee"....) The classical  opposition such as proximal / medial/ distant or  location of speaker (First person)/ listener (second person)/ third person is irrelevant... In addition in bunong one may find sequences like "this that person".... meaning approximatively "the person who is the topic of this conversation (this) whom we knowen at such or such occasion in the past....(that)" It is very interessting not only in terms of analysing utterances narrations and dialogues alike) but also in terms of cognition and ethnolinguistics....

Best regards

Sylvain Vogel

If you want an example of such a study about a language with a really particular deictic system, you should check "The Grammar of Space of Gawwada" by Tosco (2009). You should also read Levinson's "Space in Language and Cognition" (2003), if you haven't read it yet.

Dear Colleague

I knew about the problematic of space and time through Langacker 's work  ( and Talmy) I am also familiar to a certain point with Gosselin's work . The information you are providing  is the kind of information I am looking for.

Thank you

Sylvain Vogel