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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