Universal 2003:

Universal 2003:

Original

… it seems that as long as gender agreement is retained in some targets, the personal pronouns will be one of them.

Standardized

When gender agreement is in decline, IF target words other than personal pronouns continue to agree in gender, THEN personal pronouns also continue to agree in gender.

Keywords

agreement, gender, personal pronoun

Domain

inflection, syntax

Type

implication

Status

diachronic

Quality

absolute?

Basis

“over 200 languages” from all over the place

Source

Corbett 1991: 259

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