rarissimum (or infrequentale?) 133: ‘eight’ as regular base for a numeral system Where found Pamean lgs, esp. Northern Pame (Otomanguean) Domain morphology: word formation Subdomain…
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nonesuch 134
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nonesuch 134: dual forms of personal pronouns (all three persons) as the basic forms from which both singular and plural are formed by suffixation Where…
rarissimum 135
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rarissimum 135: a definite article only present in plural, but not in singular Where found Tok Pisin (English-based Pacific creole) Domain syntax Subdomain pronouns, articles…
infrequentale (family possession) 136: verbs agreeing with subjects in person and number in non-past tenses, but in gender and number in the past tense Where…
rarissimum 137
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rarissimum 137: object and subject NPs agreeing (a) in gender/class and number(b) in person Where found (a) Archi (Northeast Caucasian); Ripatransone dialect of Italian (Romance,…
nonesuch 138
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nonesuch 138: mixed ergative-accusative alignment, with person prefixes on intransitive verbs cross-referencing subject and person prefixes on transitive verbs cross-referencing object (=absolutive), while verbs also…
rarissimum 139
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rarissimum 139: adverbs agreeing in voice with the verbs they modify Where found Maori (Austronesian) Domain syntax Subdomain agreement: controllers, targets, categories, domains, conditions Keywords…
nonesuch 140
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nonesuch 140: number distinction (singular/plural) only on 2nd person pronouns, as well as on determiner demonstratives, and not on any other pronouns (including 1st) or…
infrequentale (family possession) 141: gender as an agreement category only of verbs (controlled by subject), but not noun-phrase internally nor with anaphoric pronouns Where found…
rarissimum 142
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rarissimum 142: only a single preposition – that is, one item of a word class distinct from other word classes (nouns, pronouns, verbs, inflectional clitics,…