Universal #650

Legacy number: 650

 Number  647
 Original  In a language in which categories of proximity are employed to show degrees of respect or social distance, the one used to indicate greater physical distance within discourse is also used to indicate greater respect or social distance.
 Standardized  In a language in which categories of proximity are employed to show degrees of respect or social distance, the one used to indicate greater physical distance within discourse is also used to indicate greater respect or social distance.
 Keywords  personal pronoun, proximity, respect, social distance
 Domain  inflection, semantics
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 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=13"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

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