Rara #69

Legacy number: 69

 Number  69
 Phenomenon  a quadral number with personal pronouns
 Found in  Sursurunga, Tangga (both Patpatar-Tolai, Austronesian) (?)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: person, number
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  quadral, personal pronoun
 Source  Hutchisson, Don (1986). Sursurunga pronouns and the special uses of the quadral number. In Wiesemann (ed.) 1986, 1-20.
Wiesemann, Ursula (ed.) (1986). Pronominal Systems. Tübingen: Narr.
 Violates  none

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Discussion
Notes
presumably mis-analysis: quadral not really grammaticalized; rather a paucal.
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
presumably mis-analysis: quadral not really grammaticalized; rather a paucal.