Universal #657

Legacy number: 657

 Number  654
 Original  Honorific affixes to pronouns are more common than pejorative ones; if a language has pejorative pronominal affixes, it also has honorific ones.
 Standardized  IF there are pejorative pronominal affixes, THEN there are honorific ones.
 Formula  pejorative pronominal affixes ⇒ honorific pronominal affixes
 Keywords  pronoun, affix, pejorative, honorific
 Domain  inflection, semantics
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  more than one hundred languages in Head 1978
 Source  Head 1978: 193, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=19"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

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