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 66
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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…
nonesuch 13
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nonesuch 13: four-way phonemic contrast of dental, alveolar, palato-alveolar, and retroflex stops Where found Nunggubuyu (non-Pama Nyungan, Australian) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords stops,…
Universal 1000: posterior consecutive deranking & VSO ⇒ absolute deranking
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nonesuch 2: a basic colour term for TURQUOISE Where found Tsakhur (Nakh-Daghestanian) Domain lexicon Subdomain basic terms Keywords colour terms Type nonesuch Universals violated Source…