Universal #644

Legacy number: 644

 Number  641
 Original  Variation of the category of person in personal pronouns so as to show degrees of respect or social distance usually occurs in synchronic or diachronic combinations with variation of number for the same purpose.
 Standardized  IF there is variation of the category of person in personal pronouns so as to show degrees of respect or social distance, THEN there is variation of number for the same purpose.
 Keywords  personal pronoun, person, number, respect, social distance
 Domain  inflection, semantics
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic, diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  more than one hundred languages in Head 1978
 Source  Head 1978: 191, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=6"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

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