rarissimum 117: sets of local cases regularly distinguishing whether locatum is above, below, or on same level as deictic reference point
Where found
Bantawa, Belhare, Rai (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman)
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
complexity
Keywords
case, local cases, deixis
Type
rarissimum
Universals violated
none
Source
Rai, Novel K. (1988). The locative marker suffixes of Bantawa and their extension. Arbeitsberichte aus dem Seminar für Allgemeine und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Kiel 11: 130-135. Bickel, Balthasar (1997). Spatial operations in deixis, cognition, and culture: where to orient oneself in Belhare. In Jan Nuyts & Eric Pederson (eds.), Language and Conceptualization, 46-83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ebert, Karen H. (1999). The up – down dimension in Rai grammar and mythology. In Balthasar Bickel & Martin Gaenszle (eds.), Himalayan Space: Cultural Horizons and Practices, 109-140. Zürich: Museum of Ethnography Press.
