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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