rarissimum 113: infix positioned after the second syllable of the stem Where found Dakota (Siouan) (?) Domain phonology, morphology Subdomain types of exponents and their…
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rarissimum 113: infix positioned after the second syllable of the stem Where found Dakota (Siouan) (?) Domain phonology, morphology Subdomain types of exponents and their…
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rarissimum 114: stem suppletion of the verb ‘say’ determined by the person of the addressee Where found some Oto-Manguean lgs Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain suppletion…
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rarissimum 115: stem suppletion of ‘two’, as the only numeral, depending on the use of the numeral for counting or for quantifying a noun Where…
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nonesuch 116: different definite article depending on whether an accompanying adjective denotes colour or another kind of property concept Where found Belhare (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman) Domain…
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rarissimum 117: sets of local cases regularly distinguishing whether locatum is above, below, or on same level as deictic reference point Where found Bantawa, Belhare,…
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rarissimum 118: neither tense nor aspect grammaticalized at all Where found Maybrat, Hatam, perhaps further languages of the Bird’s Head area, New Guinea (non-Austronesian) Domain…
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rarum 119: “conjunct vs. disjunct” system of (bound) person marking, with the conjunct form referring to the speaker in statements and the addressee in questions,…
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rarum 120: interrogative pro verbs Where found Southern Paiute (Uto-Aztecan); Chukchi (Chukchi-Kamchatkan); Mandarin (Chinese, Sino-Tibetan); Yankunytjatjara (aka Western Desert (PN), Kayardild ((non?) PN), and many…
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rarissimum 121: adjective after the noun, rather than mirroring the order of adverb relative to verb, where basic word order is VO and adverb comes…
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rarissimum 122: a definite article formally distinct from (one form or another of) any kind of pronoun – demonstrative, personal (free, clitic, or bound), possessive,…