Rara #41
Legacy number: 41
| Number | 41 |
| Phenomenon | stem suppletion of a noun ('man, person') essentially determined by number, with one stem used for all singular cases and another stem for all plural cases, but with both stems used for the dual, distributed by cases (most taking the plural stem, but a few the singular stem). |
| Found in | Slovene (Slavonic, IE) |
| Domain | morphology: inflection — suppletion |
| Type | nonesuch |
| Keywords | noun, number, dual |
| Source | Plank, Frans (1994c). Homonymy vs. suppletion: A riddle (and how it happens to be solved in ...). In Agreement Gender Number Genitive & (EUROTYP Working Papers VII/23), 81-86. |
| Violates | none |
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