Rara #66

Legacy number: 66

 Number  66
 Phenomenon  dual with 1st person exclusive but not with 1st person inclusive
 Found in  Yagua (Ge-Pano-Carib); Tübatulabal (Uto-Aztecan) (?); Savosavo (East Papuan) (?); Ngankikurrungkurr (nonPN, Australian) (?)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: person, number
 Type  rarum
 Keywords  inclusive, exclusive, dual
 Source  Plank, Frans (1996). Domains of the dual, in Maltese and in general. In Albert Borg & Frans Plank (eds.), The Maltese Noun Phrase Meets Typology, 123-140. Pisa: Pacini (Rivista di Linguistica 8–1.)
DuDa (Konstanz Dual Database, maintained by Frans Plank and Wolfgang Schellinger)
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Discussion
Notes
T¸batulabal (Uto-Aztecan) has a dual with 1st person exclusive, but not with 1st person inclusive, at least according to the grammatical account of Voegelin (1935); the accompanying collection of texts, however, tells a different story (caveat credited to Michael Cysouw).
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
Tübatulabal (Uto-Aztecan) has a dual with 1st person exclusive, but not with 1st person inclusive, at least according to the grammatical account of <r>Voegelin 1935</r>; the accompanying collection of texts, however, tells a different story (caveat credited to Michael Cysouw).