Universal 1898:

Universal 1898:

Original

Processess of variation of the type of pronoun used in reference for showing degrees of respect or social distance are more common in address than in reference to the speaker or to someone other than the speaker or addressee.

Standardized

Processess of variation of the type of pronoun used in reference for showing degrees of respect or social distance are more common in address than in reference to the speaker or to someone other than the speaker or addressee.

Keywords

pronoun, personal pronoun, speaker, addressee, non-locutor, social distance, respect, personal pronoun, honorific

Domain

inflection, syntax, discourse

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

more than one hundred languages in Head 1978

Source

Head 1978: 193,

Counterexamples