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Linglib.Typology.Pronouns

Pronoun typology — substrate types #

@cite{wals-2013} (Chs 39, 39B, 40, 44–48)

Type-level enums + per-language profile struct for pronoun systems across @cite{wals-2013} chapters 39–40 and 44–48: inclusive/exclusive distinctions, gender, politeness, indefinite-pronoun strategy, intensifier–reflexive relationship, person marking on adpositions.

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WALS Ch 39: inclusive/exclusive distinction in independent pronouns.

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      WALS Ch 39B: incl/excl forms in Pama-Nyungan languages (areal sub-feature).

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          WALS Ch 40: incl/excl distinction in verbal inflection.

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              WALS Ch 44: where gender distinctions appear in the pronoun paradigm.

              • in3rdAndOtherPersons : GenderInPronouns

                Gender in 3rd person AND in 1st/2nd person (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew).

              • in3rdPersonIncludingNonSg : GenderInPronouns

                Gender in 3rd person only, including non-singular forms (e.g., Polish, Albanian).

              • in3rdPersonSgOnly : GenderInPronouns

                Gender in 3rd person singular only (e.g., English he/she/it).

              • in1stOr2ndOnly : GenderInPronouns

                Gender in 1st or 2nd person but not 3rd (rare; e.g., Iraqw).

              • in3rdPersonNonSgOnly : GenderInPronouns

                Gender in 3rd person non-singular only (extremely rare).

              • noGenderDistinctions : GenderInPronouns

                No gender distinctions in pronouns (e.g., Finnish, Turkish, Japanese).

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                  WALS Ch 45: politeness (honorific/formality) distinctions in pronouns.

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                      WALS Ch 46: morphological source of indefinite pronouns.

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                          WALS Ch 47: relationship between intensifiers and reflexives.

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                              WALS Ch 48: whether adpositions bear person-marking morphology.

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                                  A language's pronoun-system profile across WALS Chs 39–40, 44–48. Not all chapters have data for every language (sample varies by chapter), so each field is Option.

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                                      def Typology.instDecidableEqPronounProfile.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : PronounProfile) :
                                      Decidable (x✝ = x✝¹)
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                                        M-T pronoun pattern (WALS Ch 136A, @cite{nichols-peterson-2013}): whether 1SG has /m/ and 2SG has /t/, a widespread cross-linguistic pattern hypothesized to reflect deep genealogical signal.

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                                            Whether 1SG has an m-initial or m-containing form (WALS Ch 136B).

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                                              def Typology.instReprMIn1SG.repr :
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                                                N-M pronoun pattern (WALS Ch 137A, @cite{nichols-peterson-2013}): whether 1SG has /n/ and 2SG has /m/.

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                                                    Whether 2SG has an m-initial or m-containing form (WALS Ch 137B).

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                                                      def Typology.instReprMIn2SG.repr :
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                                                        A language's pronoun-shape profile across @cite{wals-2013} Chs 136–137. Sister to PronounProfile (Chs 39–48). Kept as a separate struct to avoid contaminating the feature-system bundle with phonological-shape fields.

                                                        • language : String
                                                        • iso : String
                                                        • mtPronouns : Option MTPronounPattern

                                                          Ch 136A: M-T pronoun pattern.

                                                        • mIn1sg : Option MIn1SG

                                                          Ch 136B: M in 1SG.

                                                        • nmPronouns : Option NMPronounPattern

                                                          Ch 137A: N-M pronoun pattern.

                                                        • mIn2sg : Option MIn2SG

                                                          Ch 137B: M in 2SG.

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                                                            WALS Ch 136A distribution: M-T pronoun patterns (@cite{nichols-peterson-2013}, n = 230).

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                                                              def Typology.instReprMTCounts.repr :
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                                                                  WALS Ch 136A counts (230 languages).

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                                                                    The M-T pronoun pattern is a clear minority cross-linguistically: only 30/230 languages (~13%) show any form of it; 200/230 lack it entirely. Despite its visibility in Indo-European, it is not a typological default.

                                                                    Cross-linguistic pronoun and allocutive entry schemas #

                                                                    @cite{alok-bhalla-2026} @cite{arnold-2026}

                                                                    Cross-linguistic structures for pronoun inventories and allocutive markers, shared across all Fragments/{Lang}/Pronouns.lean files.

                                                                    Moved here from Core/Lexical/Pronouns.lean in the cleanup that dissolved Core/Lexical/. The 21-consumer footprint (20 Fragments + 1 Phenomena study) is precisely the per-language entry-schema pattern this file already serves for WALS-anchored substrate enums.

                                                                    PronounEntry #

                                                                    Covers the union of fields needed by all language fragments:

                                                                    PronounSpec #

                                                                    Personal pronoun specification — which pronouns a person uses. A social-linguistic fact independent of grammatical gender. @cite{arnold-2026}'s pragmatic condition for personal singular they: referent's pronouns are known to be they/them.

                                                                    AllocutiveEntry #

                                                                    Verbal suffixes (Hindi, Magahi, Maithili, Punjabi, Tamil, Basque), particles (Korean, Japanese), or clitics (Galician) realising speaker-addressee agreement.

                                                                    Personal pronoun specification — which pronouns a person uses.

                                                                    A social-linguistic fact that may or may not be in common ground. Independent of grammatical gender: a person with known feminine gender may use she/her, they/them, or neopronouns. @cite{arnold-2026}: the pragmatic condition for personal singular they is knowing that the referent's personal pronouns are they/them.

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                                                                          Cross-linguistic pronoun entry.

                                                                          Covers personal pronouns across all Fragment languages. Language-specific extensions (e.g., English PronounType/wh) remain in their respective Fragment files.

                                                                          • form : String

                                                                            Surface form (romanization or orthographic)

                                                                          • person : Option Person

                                                                            Grammatical person (UD.Person via Core.Word abbrev)

                                                                          • number : Option Number

                                                                            Grammatical number

                                                                          • case_ : Option Case

                                                                            Grammatical case

                                                                          • gender : Option Features.SurfaceGender

                                                                            Grammatical gender. For 3rd-person pronouns in gendered languages (French il/elle, German er/sie/es, etc.). 1st/2nd-person pronouns and languages without pronominal gender leave this as none.

                                                                          • Register level (formality/honorifics). Binary T/V systems use .informal/.formal; ternary honorific systems (Hindi, Magahi, Maithili, Korean) use all three levels.

                                                                          • referentialPerson : Option Features.Prominence.PersonLevel

                                                                            Referential person — who the pronoun refers to in terms of discourse role — when it diverges from formal/agreement person. For polite pronouns (Italian LEI, Spanish USTED, German SIE), the formal person field is 3rd (governing agreement, clitic allomorphy, reflexive binding), while referentialPerson is 2nd (governing the PCC, Fancy Constraint, resolved agreement). For ordinary pronouns, leave as none — referential person coincides with formal person. @cite{adamson-zompi-2025}

                                                                          • script : Option String

                                                                            Native script form (hangul, kanji, Devanagari, etc.)

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                                                                                Cross-linguistic allocutive marker entry.

                                                                                Covers verbal suffixes, particles, and clitics that realize allocutive agreement across all Fragment languages.

                                                                                • form : String

                                                                                  Surface form of the marker

                                                                                • Register level (matching PronounEntry.register scale)

                                                                                • gloss : String

                                                                                  Gloss string (e.g., "IMP.NH", "POL", "2sg.DAT.fam")

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