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rarissimum 44

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rarissimum 44: internally unanalysable independent personal pronoun expressing the meaning ‘1st person singular non-topic acting on 2nd person singular topic’

Where found
Tagalog (Philippine Austronesian)
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
cumulation, sensitivity
Keywords
pronoun, person, 1st, 2nd
Type
rarissimum
Universals violated
none
Source
David Gil, LINGTYP List, 12 Sep 2000

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Actually, anomalies in combinations of 1st and 2nd person would seem more common; see Heath in Paradigms and more recently in Language.

    1. May 2020

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