rarum 33: negation expressed negatively, by omission of material present in affirmative clause (marked realis vs. unmarked irrealis mood inflection) Where found Tamil, Kannada, Toda,…
rarum 33
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rarissimum 34
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rarissimum 34: verb inflection with non-zero exponent for 3rd person (subject or object agreement/cross-reference), but zero for all other persons Where found Standard English (Germanic,…
rarissimum 35
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rarissimum 35: zero exponence for plural, non-zero for singular (not singulative!) as well as dual Where found Imonda (Trans-New Guinea, “Papuan”) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain…
infrequentale (family possession) 36: inverse number marking: same exponent denoting singular, dual, or plural in different declensions, depending on which number is least expected from…
rarissimum 37
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rarissimum 37: absolutive singular (marking intransitive subject) as the morphologically most complex noun form, expressed by a variety of suffixes or also by reduplication of…
rarissimum 38
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rarissimum 38: absolutive (marking intransitive subject and transitive direct object) as the morphologically marked case vis-à-vis (zero-marked) ergative (marking transitive subject), (a) on NPs which…
rarum 39
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rarum 39: nominative (marking intransitive and transitive subject) as the morphologically marked case vis-à-vis (zero-marked) accusative (marking direct object), for all nouns or for some…
rarissimum 40
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rarissimum 40: stem suppletion of an adjectival word (viz., the cardinal numeral ‘one’) determined by gender Where found Classical Greek (Hellenic, IE) Domain morphology: inflection…
nonesuch 41
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nonesuch 41: stem suppletion of a noun (‘man, person’) essentially determined by number, with one stem used for all singular cases and another stem for…
rarissimum 42
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rarissimum 42: number suppletion of the indefinite pronoun, with the singular form identical to the numeral ‘one’ and (here comes the nonesuch) the plural (and…