rarissimum 72

rarissimum 72: number marking (for plural and dual) on personal pronouns (suppletive) as well as on expressives (or ideophones; by suffix, which is unusual in Mon-Khmer, a family otherwise preferring prefixes and infixes), but not on any other word class (including nouns and verbs)

Where found

Bahnar (or Bahnaric in general?) (Mon-Khmer, Austro-Asiatic)

Domain

morphology: inflection

Subdomain

categories and their domains: person, number

Keywords

personal pronoun, ideophone

Type

rarissimum

Universals violated

,

Source

Diffloth, Gérard (1994). i: big, a: small. In Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, & John Ohala (eds.), Sound Symbolism, 107-114. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.