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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