Universal #639
Legacy number: 639
| Number | 636 |
| Original | Number is the pronominal category most widely used among different languages in alternation of reference by personal pronoun to show degrees of respect or social distance. |
| Standardized | If any pronominal category is used to show degrees of respect or social distance, THEN most commonly it is the category of number. |
| Keywords | personal pronoun, number, respect, social distance |
| Domain | inflection, semantics |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | more than one hundred languages in Head 1978 |
| Source | Head 1978: 190, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=3"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> |
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