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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