Language: | Taba |
Feature: | Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns by Johannes Helmbrecht |
Value: | Binary politeness distinction |
h= | 2nd sg. hon. | - 2nd plural actor clitic is used as honorific form of address if the addressee is older than the speaker; - plural is also indicator of respect when adressing/ referringto an individual of greater age than speaker |
meu | 2nd sg. hon. | - 2nd plural pronoun is used as honorific form of address if theaddressee is older than the speaker |
- free pronouns are used in all syntactic functions, a
set of clitic pronouns is used for actor cross referencing;
- plural is also indicator of respect when adressing/
referring to an individual of greater age than speaker