Rara #53
Legacy number: 53
| Number | 53 |
| Phenomenon | gender contrast of nouns, but not of pronouns (except interrogative ones, in Teop) |
| Found in | Turkana (Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan); Teop (Bougainville, Oceanic, Austronesian) |
| Domain | morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: gender, respect |
| Type | rarissimum |
| Keywords | noun, pronoun |
| Source | Dryer, Matthew S. (1997). Why statistical universals are better than absolute universals. Chicago Linguistic Society 33, The Panels: 123-145. Mosel, Ulrike & Ruth Spriggs (undated). The genesis of gender in Teop (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea). Handout. |
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