Hello everyone, thanks for visiting this page! If you have any feedback/questions/etc., I'd love to hear that: you can email me at s.terenghi@uu.nl. ------ [Short abstract, see PDF for full version] Since Anderson & Keenan 1985, two types of (exophoric) demonstrative systems have been described: person-oriented demonstratives systems refer to the speech act partici- pants (speaker ‘*i*’, hearer ‘*u*’) and locate an object/an area in the vicinity of one or neither of them; distance-oriented demonstrative systems, instead, make reference to the relative distance of the referent w.r.t. *i*, by defining (typically: three) degrees of distance: near *i*, at a medial distance from *i*, and far from *i*. The distinction between these systems is only visible in the middle term of ternary demonstrative systems (i.e. systems with three contrastive forms): that term is interpreted as *u*-related in person-oriented systems and as conveying a medial distance from *i* in distance-oriented ones. In this paper, I propose a unified analysis of these systems: I argue that demonstratives are to be construed as person-oriented and that distance contrasts are encoded on top of person oppositions, i.e. derived as modifiers of the person core.