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Universal 645:

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Universal 645:

Original
If the gender of a 3rd person personal pronoun does not vary when used in reference to the addressee(s), in a language which has distinctions of gender in the 3rd person personal pronouns, then it corresponds to that of the noun or the head noun phrase which the pronoun replaced.
Standardized
IF the gender of a 3rd person personal pronoun does not vary when used in reference to the addressee(s), in a language which has distinctions of gender in the 3rd person personal pronouns, THEN it corresponds to that of the noun or the head noun phrase which the pronoun replaced.
Keywords
personal pronoun, 3 person, gender, noun, addressee
Domain
inflection, syntax
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
more than one hundred languages in Head 1978
Source
Head 1978: 192,
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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