Rara #63

Legacy number: 63

 Number  63
 Phenomenon  pronoun of most respectful address recruited from pronoun of identity ((allerhöchst)dieselben), rather than from indefinite or least definite pronoun
 Found in  18th century German (Germanic, IE)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: gender, respect
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  pronoun of address, respect, social distance
 Source  Simon, Horst (1999). Für eine grammatische Kategorie 'Respekt' im Deutschen: Synchronie, Diachronie und Typologie der deutschen Anredepronomina. Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.
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