Universal #649

Legacy number: 649

 Number  646
 Original  Variation of gender so as to employ one which does not correspond to the notional category of the sex of the referent is not used for showing greater respect than reference with the usual gender.
 Standardized  Variation of gender so as to employ one which does not correspond to the notional category of the sex of the referent is not used for showing greater respect than reference with the usual gender.
 Keywords  personal pronoun, gender, noun, honorific
 Domain  inflection, semantics
 Type  unconditional
 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=11"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

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