1. May 2020 FP One Comment Universal 643: Posted in Universals Archive Universal 643: Original Variation of person in pronominal reference indicates greater difference in degree of respect or social distance than does variation of number. Standardized Variation of person in pronominal reference indicates greater difference in degree of respect or social distance than does variation of number. Keywords personal pronoun, person, number, respect, social distance Domain inflection, semantics Type implication Status achronic Quality absolute Basis more than one hundred languages in Head 1978 Source Head 1978: 191, Counterexamples Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts One Comment FP Thus, in languages in which variation of number and of person are both employed to indicate social meaning in address, the hierarchy in order of increasing social distance is: 2Sg < 2Pl < 3Sg < 3Pl. (Head 1978) 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.
FP Thus, in languages in which variation of number and of person are both employed to indicate social meaning in address, the hierarchy in order of increasing social distance is: 2Sg < 2Pl < 3Sg < 3Pl. (Head 1978) 1. May 2020
Thus, in languages in which variation of number and of person are both employed to indicate social meaning in address, the hierarchy in order of increasing social distance is: 2Sg < 2Pl < 3Sg < 3Pl. (Head 1978)