Universal #1877

Legacy number: 1877

 Number  1872
 Original  There are instances in which a 1st person inclusive plural shows by its morphological structure that it consists of the 1st person plus the 2nd person, e.g. Tok Pisin ‘yimi’, but I have found no instances of a dual inclusive formed in this manner.
 Standardized  Pronouns for 1st person inclusive plural may consist of 1st person plus 2nd person [singular] forms, but pronouns for 1st person inclusive dual may not.
 Keywords  inclusive, person, 1, 2, number, dual, plural
 Domain  inflection
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Greenberg 1988
 Source  Greenberg 1988: 15, footnote 2

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Discussion
Counterexamples
Kriol (a language spoken by some thousands of Aborigines across the north of Australia), where the inclusive dual consists of 1st and 2nd person forms, but the inclusive plural not. (McGregor 1989: 445)
Notes
Implicational version:IF a 1st person inclusive pronoun consists of 1st person +2nd person morphemes, THEN it is inclusive plural, never inclusive dual.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Implicational version:
IF a 1st person inclusive pronoun consists of 1st person +2nd person morphemes, THEN it is inclusive plural, never inclusive dual.