nonesuch 129: eight basic colour terms, of which no less than four are for REDs: shocking pink, burgundy, reddish brown, and wine red Where found…
nonesuch 129
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infrequentale (family possession) 145: of all cardinal numerals, only that for ‘four’ agreeing in gender Where found Chechen, Ingush, Tsova-Tush (NE Central, or Nakh, Daghestanian)…
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,…
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rarissimum 50: an extra-large inventory of pronominal words, of some 200 Where found Rennell (Futunic, Polynesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain complexity Keywords pronoun…
rarum 66
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rarum 66: dual with 1st person exclusive but not with 1st person inclusive Where found Yagua (Ge-Pano-Carib); Tübatulabal (Uto-Aztecan) (?); Savosavo (East Papuan) (?); Ngankikurrungkurr…
rarum 82
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rarum 82: parasitic gaps (rather than an overt resumptive pronouns), licensed in main clauses if and only if a coreferential NP in a topicalized, fronted…
nonesuch 98
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nonesuch 98: the two meanings ‘sun’ and ‘future tense’ expressed by the same form (because the future is grammaticalized from the adverb sina ‘tomorrow’, which…
rarissimum 114
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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…
rarum 130
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rarum 130: a basic colour term for undifferentiated YELLOW-GREEN-BLUE, as a “catch-everything-else” category in addition to BLACK, WHITE, and RED Where found Arrernte (PN, Australian);…
nonesuch 146
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nonesuch 146: different forms of the verb ‘to say’ depending on the sex of the person whose speaking is reported:bada ‘[a man] said’, mana ‘[a…