Universal #2009
Legacy number: 2009
| Number | 2003 |
| Original | ... it seems that as long as gender agreement is retained in some targets, the personal pronouns will be one of them. |
| Standardized | When gender agreement is in decline, IF target words other than personal pronouns continue to agree in gender, THEN personal pronouns also continue to agree in gender. |
| Keywords | agreement, gender, personal pronoun |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | diachronic |
| Quality | absolute? |
| Basis | "over 200 languages" from all over the place |
| Source | Corbett 1991: 259 |
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