rarissimum 53

rarissimum 53: gender contrast of nouns, but not of pronouns (except interrogative ones, in Teop)

Where found

Turkana (Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan); Teop (Bougainville, Oceanic, Austronesian)

Domain

morphology: inflection

Subdomain

categories and their domains: gender, respect

Keywords

noun, pronoun

Type

rarissimum

Universals violated

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Source

Dryer, Matthew S. (1997). Why statistical universals are better than absolute universals. Chicago Linguistic Society 33, The Panels: 123-145.
Mosel, Ulrike & Ruth Spriggs (undated). The genesis of gender in Teop (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea). Handout.