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Universal 640:
- Original
- Variation of more than one pronominal category may occur in the same language in reference showing different degrees of respect.
- Standardized
- Variation of more than one pronominal category may occur in the same language in reference showing different degrees of respect.
- Keywords
- personal pronoun, respect, social distance
- Domain
- inflection, semantics
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- more than one hundred languages in Head 1978
- Source
- Head 1978: 191,
- Counterexamples
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