Recent studies about the locative adverb ici (‘here’) have undoubtely advanced our understanding of the way this adverb functions. These studies, however, rely on partial analysis, lead to divergent conclusions and leave some issues unresolved. This contribution aims to highlight the crucial features of the different analyses of ici, their stable results and open questions. I focus on three areas : the kind of space and location referred to by ici, the way in which ici refers and ici’s indexicality. In the first and second part of this paper, I posit that ici is both “spatially” and “deictically” indeterminate. In the third part, I deconstruct the deixis function of ici through the discussion of a particular use.