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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