Rara #68

Legacy number: 68

 Number  68
 Phenomenon  an ambal (aka 'paral', only referring to natural pairs) in addition to a dual (referring to any two referents)
 Found in  Tocharian A and B (IE) (especially B, since in A the dual itself is obsolescent)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: person, number
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  dual, ambal
 Source  Windekens, A. J. van (1979). Le tokharien confrontéavec les autres langues indo-européennes. Vol. II, 1: La morphologie nominale. Louvain: Centre International de Dialectologie Générale.
Krause & Thomas (1960). Tocharian Schulze, Sieg, & Siegling (1931). Tocharian
 Violates  none

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