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Head, Brian F. 1978. Respect degrees in pronominal reference. In Greenberg, Joseph Harold, ed. Universals of human language. Stanford UP. pp. 151–211.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language universal | politeness | pronoun | reference | social relationship

Annotation

An examination of the social meaning of variation of pronominal categories and types of pronouns used in reference. Some hypotheses of linguistic universals are proposed on the basis of a comparison of alternation of pronominal reference in over a hundred languages.