In an overwhelming majority of languages, if the metaperson ‘hearer’ in the singular is not the only meaning expressed by some pronominal form, then this form includes among its meanings the metapersons: (a) ‘hearer’ in the non-singular; (b) ‘hearer(s) + non-participant(s)’
Standardized
IF the metaperson ‘hearer’ in the singular is not the only meaning expressed by a pronominal form, THEN this form includes among its meanings the metapersons: a) ‘hearer’ in the non-singular; b) ‘hearer(s) + non-participant(s)’
Keywords
personal pronoun, person, 2nd, hearer, number, singular, non-singular, non-participant
Domain
inflection, syntax, lexicon
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
400 world-wide distributed languages, see Sokolovskaja 1980: 98-99; Sokolovskaja surveyed systems of independent personal pronouns only.
Sokolovskaja recognizes the following metapersons:’speaker’, ‘hearer’, ‘non-participant’, ‘speaker + hearer(s)’, ‘speaker + non-participant(s)’, ‘hearer(s) + non-participant(s)’, and ‘speaker + hearer(s) + non-participant(s).