Rara #73

Legacy number: 73

 Number  73
 Phenomenon  duals up and down the referential hierarchy (ignoring INCL/EXCL)

PRONOUNS NOUNS
1ST 2ND 3RD

(a)
+DU----------------> in abundance
+DU-----------> –DU 65+ languages
+DU------> –DU------> 3+ languages
+DU –DU-----------> 9+ languages
+DU----------------> over half of all (existing) lgs

(b)
–DU +DU-----------> Cl. Arabic (Semitic, Afroasiatic) +
–DU------> +DU------> Ugaritic (Semitic, Afroasiatic) +
–DU-----------> +DU 10+ languages

+DU------> –DU +DU Kewa ("Papuan") (?)
+DU –DU +DU------> northern dialects of Ostyak (Uralic)
–DU------> +DU –DU 4+ languages
–DU +DU –DU------> in no (attested) language (?)

+DU –DU------> +DU in no (attested) language (?)
–DU +DU------> –DU Rawa (Trans-NG, "Papuan") (?)
+DU –DU +DU –DU Sedang (Austroasiatic)
–DU +DU –DU +DU in no (attested) language (?)
 Found in  see above, or see Image - if you can
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: person, number
 Type  rarum
 Keywords  dual, personal pronouns
 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)
 Violates  not in the (a), but in the (b) patterns: referential hierarchy (Smith-Stark and others)

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