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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135 | a definite article only present in plural, but not in singular | Tok Pisin (English-based Pacific creole) | syntax / pronouns, articles | definite article, number, singular, plural |
| 137 | object and subject NPs agreeing (a) in gender/class and number (b) in person |
(a) Archi (Northeast Caucasian); Ripatransone dialect of Italian (Romance, IE)<br> (b) Coahuilteco (Hokan) | syntax / agreement: controllers, targets, categories, domains, conditions | object, subject, gender, class, number, person |
| 139 | adverbs agreeing in voice with the verbs they modify | Maori (Austronesian) | syntax / agreement: controllers, targets, categories, domains, conditions | adverb, verb, voice |
| 142 | only a single preposition - that is, one item of a word class distinct from other word classes (nouns, pronouns, verbs, inflectional clitics, particles, ideophones, and COMP words) and comparable to a word class of adpositions in other languages | Wari' (Chapacuran, Amazonian) | syntax / word classes | adposition |
| 143 | only a single adjective – that is, one item of a word class distinct from other word classes (in particular nouns and verbs) and comparable to a word class of adjectives in other languages | Toqabaqita (Austronesian, spoken in the Solomon Islands) | syntax / word classes | adjective |