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Universal 654: pejorative pronominal affixes ⇒ honorific pronominal affixes

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Universal 654: pejorative pronominal affixes ⇒ honorific pronominal affixes

Original
Honorific affixes to pronouns are more common than pejorative ones; if a language has pejorative pronominal affixes, it also has honorific ones.
Standardized
IF there are pejorative pronominal affixes, THEN there are honorific ones.
Keywords
pronoun, affix, pejorative, honorific
Domain
inflection, semantics
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
more than one hundred languages in Head 1978
Source
Head 1978: 193,
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
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    1. May 2020

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