Universal 580: (gender (Sg) & gender (1non-Sg &,V 2 non-Sg)) ⇒ gender (1Sg &,V 2 Sg ) V gender (3Sg)

Universal 580: (gender (Sg) & gender (1non-Sg &,V 2 non-Sg)) ⇒ gender (1Sg &,V 2 Sg ) V gender (3Sg)

Original

In languages with Gender distinctions in the Singular, the existence of a Gender distinction in 1st and /or 2nd person non-Singular implies the existence of the same Gender distinction in the Singular involving either the corresponding person(s) or 3d person.

Standardized

When there are gender distinctions in the singular, IF there is a gender distinction in 1st and/or 2nd person non-singular, THEN there is the same gender distinction in the singular involving either the corresponding person(s) or 3rd person.

Keywords

gender, number, singular, person, 1, 2, 3, pronoun

Domain

inflection

Type

implication

Status

achronic

Quality

absolute

Basis

sample of Greenberg 1963; languages in Plank & Schellinger 1994a, Plank & Schellinger 1994b, Plank & Schellinger 1997

Source

suggested by Moravcsik in Plank & Schellinger 1994a: 99

Counterexamples