Universal #648
Legacy number: 648
| Number | 645 |
| Original | If the gender of a 3rd person personal pronoun does not vary when used in reference to the addressee(s), in a language which has distinctions of gender in the 3rd person personal pronouns, then it corresponds to that of the noun or the head noun phrase which the pronoun replaced. |
| Standardized | IF the gender of a 3rd person personal pronoun does not vary when used in reference to the addressee(s), in a language which has distinctions of gender in the 3rd person personal pronouns, THEN it corresponds to that of the noun or the head noun phrase which the pronoun replaced. |
| Keywords | personal pronoun, 3 person, gender, noun, addressee |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | more than one hundred languages in Head 1978 |
| Source | Head 1978: 192, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=10"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> |
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