Rara #72

Legacy number: 72

 Number  72
 Phenomenon  number marking (for plural and dual) on personal pronouns (suppletive) as well as on expressives (or ideophones; by suffix, which is unusual in Mon-Khmer, a family otherwise preferring prefixes and infixes), but not on any other word class (including nouns and verbs)
 Found in  Bahnar (or Bahnaric in general?) (Mon-Khmer, Austro-Asiatic)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: person, number
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  personal pronoun, ideophone
 Source  Diffloth, Gérard (1994). i: big, a: small. In Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, & John Ohala (eds.), Sound Symbolism, 107-114. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Violates  <a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=255"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="../../archive/nav/browse.php?entry_id=426"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">

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