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Universal 718: 2 > (1, 3) ⇒ Incl
- Original
- If a language has a deictic salience of the 2nd person, then it has the category of Inclusive.
- Standardized
- IF there is a deictic salience of the 2nd person, THEN there is a category of inclusive.
- Keywords
- person hierarchy, 2 person, inclusive
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
- Quality
- absolute?
- Basis
- languages with 2 > 1 > 3 person hierarchy surveyed in Filimonova 1997, Filimonova 1999, including Ojibwe (Algonquian), Aymara, Jaqaru (both Aymaran, Andean), Coos (Kusan), Karaja (Ge-Pano-Carib), Wik-Munkan (Pama-Nyungan) and others
- Source
- Filimonova 1997, Filimonova 1999
- Counterexamples
What is “deictic salience”? Addressee ranking higher than Speaker on reference hierarchy?