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. |
Discussion
Notes
The single Wari? preposition inflects, often suppletively, for person, number, gender.
Comment
The single Wari' preposition inflects, often suppletively, for person, number, gender.
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