Rara #142

Legacy number: 142

 Number  142
 Phenomenon  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
 Found in  Wari' (Chapacuran, Amazonian)
 Domain  syntax — word classes
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  adposition
 Source  Everett, Daniel L. (1998). Wari' (Amazonian). In Andrew Spencer & Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), Handbook of Morphology, 690-706. Oxford: Blackwell.
Everett, Daniel L. & Barbara Kern (1997). Wari': The Pacaas Novos Language of Western Brazil. London: Routledge.

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The single Wari? preposition inflects, often suppletively, for person, number, gender.
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Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
The single Wari' preposition inflects, often suppletively, for person, number, gender.