Rara #117
Legacy number: 117
| Number | 117 |
| Phenomenon | sets of local cases regularly distinguishing whether locatum is above, below, or on same level as deictic reference point |
| Found in | Bantawa, Belhare, Rai (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman) |
| Domain | morphology: inflection — complexity |
| Type | rarissimum |
| Keywords | case, local cases, deixis |
| 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. |
| Violates | none |
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