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,…
rarissimum 117
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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…
nonesuch 22
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nonesuch 22: word-stress on post-postinitial syllable Where found Winnebago (Siouan) Domain phonology Subdomain word-stress Keywords post-postinitial syllable Type nonesuch Universals violated ?, ?, Source Miner,…
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…
rarissimum 54
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rarissimum 54: gender contrast (MASC/FEM) in personal pronouns for 2nd, 3rd, and sometimes also 1st plural and for 2nd singular but not for 1st and…
rarissimum 70
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rarissimum 70: independent personal pronouns for 1st and 3rd (animate) person inflecting for both number and case, but that for 2nd person inflecting for neither…
nonesuch 86
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nonesuch 86: determiners and modifiers agreeing in all relevant agreement categories (gender, number, case) with only one of two or more conjoined nouns sharing these…
nonesuch 102
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nonesuch 102: intervocalic consonant clusters of decreasing sonority in toto assigned to onsets of second syllables Where found Malayalam (Dravidian) Domain phonology Subdomain syllable structure…
rarissimum 118
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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…
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…