Rara #59

Legacy number: 59

 Number  59
 Phenomenon  contrast in pronouns for 3rd person for number (SG/PL), gender (both of the referent and of the speaker), kin relationship between speaker and referent (and if affine, then also whether in ascending or descending generation), and ethnic identity (Yuchi vs. other)
 Found in  Yuchi (isolate, east central Oklahoma, USA)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: gender, respect
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  personal pronoun, number, kinship
 Source  Wagner, Günter (1938). Yuchi. In Franz Boas (ed.), Handbook of American Indian Languages, vol. 3.
 Violates  none

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