Universal #1903

Legacy number: 1903

 Number  1898
 Original  Processess of variation of the type of pronoun used in reference for showing degrees of respect or social distance are more common in address than in reference to the speaker or to someone other than the speaker or addressee.
 Standardized  Processess of variation of the type of pronoun used in reference for showing degrees of respect or social distance are more common in address than in reference to the speaker or to someone other than the speaker or addressee.
 Keywords  pronoun, personal pronoun, speaker, addressee, non-locutor, social distance, respect, personal pronoun, honorific
 Domain  inflection, syntax, discourse
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  more than one hundred languages in Head 1978
 Source  Head 1978: 193, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=17"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

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Discussion
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Isn''t this the same as #1902?
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Isn't this the same as <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1902"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">?