Universal #1951

Legacy number: 1951

 Number  1945
 Original  In deixis, person and related spatial, 1st and 3rd person never align as against 2nd. 2nd person may align with 1st or 3rd or both.
 Standardized  In deixis, person and related spatial, 1st and 3rd person never align as against 2nd. 2nd person may align with 1st or 3rd or both.
 Keywords  deixis, spatial, person, 1, 2, 3
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Greenberg 1993: 14

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Notes
For impossible alignment cases see ##1950, 1944, 1409.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
For impossible alignment cases see <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1950"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1944"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1409"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.