Re: "Register" a grammatical term

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> I just wondered if "register" was ever used to
> refer to the familiar/honorific axis of grammar.
As in Japanese or, indeed, the second person pronoun in many European
languages.

> I seem to remember so but it might be that I came up with it myself.
I've checked both Trask & Crystal and both give definitions of
_honorific_ as a grammatical term. But neither of them use the word
'register' in their definitions nor, indeed, do either define 'familiar'
as a grammatical term.

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