Universal #652
Legacy number: 652
| Number | 649 |
| Original | Reflexive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and pronominalized nouns or pronominalized nominal expressions used in reference, usually indicate greater respect or social distance than do personal pronouns of the same number. |
| Standardized | Of (i) reflexive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and pronominalized nouns or pronominalized nominal expressions used in reference and (ii) personal pronouns of the same number, the former (i) usually indicate greater respect or social distance than the latter (ii). |
| Keywords | personal pronoun, reflexive pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, number, respect, social distance |
| Domain | syntax, semantics |
| Type | no genuine implication; rather: provided that |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | more than one hundred languages in Head 1978 |
| Source | Head 1978: 192, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=14"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> |
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