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Universal 646:

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Universal 646:

Original
Variation of gender so as to employ one which does not correspond to the notional category of the sex of the referent is not used for showing greater respect than reference with the usual gender.
Standardized
Variation of gender so as to employ one which does not correspond to the notional category of the sex of the referent is not used for showing greater respect than reference with the usual gender.
Keywords
personal pronoun, gender, noun, honorific
Domain
inflection, semantics
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
more than one hundred languages in Head 1978
Source
Head 1978: 192,
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
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    1. May 2020

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