Rara #32

Legacy number: 32

 Number  32
 Phenomenon  plural marking of a small subset of nouns (persons, kin) by lengthening of the vowel of the antepenultimate syllable, not a salient structural position otherwise (e.g., stress is on long vowels, otherwise on the penult)
 Found in  Hawaiian, Samoan (Polynesian, Austronesian)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — types of exponents and their uses
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  number, plural, vowel lengthening
 Source  Elbert, Samuel H. & Mary Kawena Pukui (1977). Hawaiian Grammar. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; p. 106
 Violates  none

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Discussion
Notes
e.g., Hawaiian ka.NA.ka ?person? ? KAA.NA.ka ?people? (with two stresses in plural, main on penult and secondary on lengthened antepenult).
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
e.g., Hawaiian ka.NA.ka 'person' – KAA.NA.ka 'people'
(with two stresses in plural, main on penult and secondary on lengthened antepenult).