nonesuch 67: a three-way distinction among personal pronouns between ‘singular speaker’, ‘singular non-speaker’ (i.e. addressee or other), ‘plural’ (any speech-act role or combination of roles).…
nonesuch 67
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rarum 83
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rarum 83: some noun-phrase internal agreement but no agreement at clause level Where found (some) Pama-Nyungan (Australian); modern Continental Scandinavian Germanic (IE) Domain syntax Subdomain…
infrequentale (family possession) 99: high and low vowels as one class as opposed to mid vowels in determining vowel harmony Where found Swahili and perhaps…
rarissimum 115
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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…
rarum (or infrequentale?) 131: a phoneme inventory with more vowels than consonants (10 : 8) Where found Hawaiian, and probably other Polynesian lgs (Austronesian) Domain…
rarum 147
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rarum 147: an imperative of distant future, as opposed to an imperative of near future; formed from near-future imperative verb forms plus the ablative singular…
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…