Rara #87
Legacy number: 87
| Number | 87 |
| Phenomenon | Suffixaufnahme in more or less prototypical form, i.e., with a noun in an attributive case (genitive and/or other) agreeing in case (and perhaps further inflectional categories) with its head noun |
| Found in | some Australian lgs (indeed about half of them); Awngi (Central Cushitic), Burji, Darasa (Highland East Cushitic) (Cushitic, Afroasiatic); Maasai (and perhaps other Paranilotic lgs, Nilo-Saharan or Afroasiatic); Kikongo group (Bantu, Niger-Congo); many or indeed most modern Indo-Aryan lgs (except all of Magadhan and Singhalese-Maldivian)(IE); Malto (alone in Dravidian); Old Georgian and perhaps further old Kartvelian lgs; Tsezic group (NE Caucasian); Chukchi and perhaps other Chukchi-Kamchatkan lgs; Evenki, Even (Tungus, Altaic); Hurrian and Urartean [i.e., all of the long extinct Hurro-Urartean family, hence an infrequentale?] |
| Domain | syntax — agreement: controllers, targets, categories, domains, conditions |
| Type | rarum |
| Keywords | case, genitive, Suffixaufnahme |
| Source | Plank, Frans (ed.) (1995). Double Case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme. New York: Oxford University Press. Schellinger, Wolfgang (1998). The Malto noun phrase meets typology: Dravidian Suffixaufnahme and Aufnahme universals. Unpublished, Universität Konstanz. (adding Malto) |
| Violates | none |
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