Universal 400: (plural marker (1 &/V. 2 person pronoun) = plural marker (noun)) ⇒ the same plural marker (3 person pronoun)

Universal 400: (plural marker (1 &/V. 2 person pronoun) = plural marker (noun)) ⇒ the same plural marker (3 person pronoun)

Original

If a language indicates number in the 1st and /or 2nd person pronoun by using a plural marker also used for nouns, so does it in the 3rd person.

Standardized

IF number in the 1st and/or 2nd person pronoun is indicated by a plural marker also used for nouns, THEN 3rd person uses the same plural marker.

Keywords

number, plural, noun, personal pronoun, person, 1, 2, 3

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

almost absolute

Basis

languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978b, Moravcsik 1994a

Source

Moravcsik 1978b: 354, Moravcsik 1994a: 45

Counterexamples

Haida (isolate), where 1st and 2nd person pronouns form their plurals by inflection following the nominal type and 3rd person pronouns have suppletive plural forms (for details see Swanton 1911/1969) (Filimonova 2001).