"T form" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka, editors, Meaning and Universal Grammar",
          "text": "In most Romance languages, the “intimate” T form is believed to be semantically more basic than the “formal” V form (Wierzbicka 1992:320).",
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          "ref": "2006, Anne Barron, “Learning to say 'You' in German”, in Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts",
          "text": "In general, the V form (Sie) is employed in German where interlocutors use a title and surname to refer nominally to each other, whereas the T form (du) is employed among interlocutors on first name terms (cf. Wein-rich, 1993: 822).",
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          "ref": "2010, Anna Trosborg, editor, Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures",
          "text": "Historically, deciding whether to use the V or T form was determined by the power relationship between the interlocutors. Lower status persons addressed higher status persons with the V form; conversely higher status persons addressed lower status with the T form.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2015, Ronald Wardhaugh, Janet M. Fuller, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics",
          "text": "The T form is sometimes described as the 'familiar' form and the V form as the 'polite' one, although the social meanings of these forms are in reality much more complex than that.",
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  "word": "T form"
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          "ref": "2002, Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka, editors, Meaning and Universal Grammar",
          "text": "In most Romance languages, the “intimate” T form is believed to be semantically more basic than the “formal” V form (Wierzbicka 1992:320).",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2006, Anne Barron, “Learning to say 'You' in German”, in Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts",
          "text": "In general, the V form (Sie) is employed in German where interlocutors use a title and surname to refer nominally to each other, whereas the T form (du) is employed among interlocutors on first name terms (cf. Wein-rich, 1993: 822).",
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          "text": "Historically, deciding whether to use the V or T form was determined by the power relationship between the interlocutors. Lower status persons addressed higher status persons with the V form; conversely higher status persons addressed lower status with the T form.",
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