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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