Rara #54

Legacy number: 54

 Number  54
 Phenomenon  gender contrast (MASC/FEM) in personal pronouns for 2nd, 3rd, and sometimes also 1st plural and for 2nd singular but not for 1st and 3rd singular, in some pronominal paradigms
 Found in  Tàhàggart, Tuareg, Kabyle, Proto-Berber (?!) (Berber, Afroasiatic) [a family trait: limited to Berber but not shared by all members]
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: gender, respect
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  personal pronoun, person, number
 Source  Plank, Frans & Wolfgang Schellinger (1997). The uneven distribution of genders over numbers: Greenberg Nos. 37 and 45. Linguistic Typology 1: 53-101.
 Violates  <a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=93"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=516"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=520"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

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