Das grammatische Raritätenkabinett
A catalogue of rare and unusual grammatical phenomena documented across the world’s languages. 147 published entries.
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| # | Phenomenon | Found in | Domain | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 134 | dual forms of personal pronouns (all three persons) as the basic forms from which both singular and plural are formed by suffixation | Muisca (Chibchan) | morphology: inflection / zero | dual, plural, singular, personal pronoun |
| 140 | number distinction (singular/plural) only on 2nd person pronouns, as well as on determiner demonstratives, and not on any other pronouns (including 1st) or nouns | Malagasy (West Indonesian, Austronesian) | morphology: inflection / categories and their domains: person, number | personal pronoun |
| 147 | an imperative of distant future, as opposed to an imperative of near future; formed from near-future imperative verb forms plus the ablative singular of the pronoun *to-, -to:d 'from there, afterwards' illustration: tu epistulam hanc a me accipe atque illi dato: (Plautus, Pseudolus) 'take you this letter from me [now] and give it to him [later]!' |
Old Indian (Sanskrit), Ancient Greek, and Latin (a family possession, i.e., jointly innovated in (a subset of) Indo-European, and lost in other members of the family?) | morphology: inflection / mood, tense | imperative, future |