Universal 429: gender ⇒ gender (3 person)
- Original
- If in a particular language gender distinctions appear, it will be the 3rd person.
- Standardized
- IF gender distinctions appear anywhere else, THEN they will already be there in the 3rd person.
- Keywords
- gender, 3 person
- Domain
- inflection
- Type
- implication
- Status
- diachronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978b
- Source
- inferred from Moravcsik 1978b: 361
- Counterexamples
1. See Comrie 1975: Comrie, B. (1975). Polite plurals and predicate agreement. Language 51: 406-419.2. Panchronically, this is:IF there are gender distinctions in non-3rd persons, THEN there are also gender distinctions in 3rd person.Same as Greenberg 1963, #44 (here #519), and often claimed elsewhere.