Universal 1945:
- Original
- In deixis, person and related spatial, 1st and 3rd person never align as against 2nd. 2nd person may align with 1st or 3rd or both.
- Standardized
- In deixis, person and related spatial, 1st and 3rd person never align as against 2nd. 2nd person may align with 1st or 3rd or both.
- Keywords
- deixis, spatial, person, 1, 2, 3
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Greenberg 1993: 14
- Counterexamples
For impossible alignment cases see ##1950, 1944, 1409.