rarissimum 46: nouns requiring marking for person Where found Elamite (extinct isolate, Ancient Near East); Nama (Khoisan) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain locus Keywords noun, person…
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nonesuch 62: inflection of the great majority of words – nominal, pronominal, verbal –for sex of the speaker (and, in the case of male forms,…
rarissimum 78
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rarissimum 78: expression of numerical approximation (‘about 5’, ‘about the fifth’) by inversion of word order from Numeral + Noun to N + Num Where…
rarissimum 94
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rarissimum 94: a benefactive applied object in a multiple objects construction behaving like the single object of a primary transitive verb, esp. with regard to…
infrequentale (family possession) 110: verb-final and postpositions, but bound morphology (almost) exclusively prefixal Where found Athabaskan lgs [a family possession?] Domain morphology, syntax Subdomain types…
nonesuch 126
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nonesuch 126: tonal agreement: lexical tone of possessive pronoun (H or HL), and no other determiner or modifier, being reproduced on the noun it is…
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,…
nonesuch 31
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nonesuch 31: reduplication of verb to form finite verb of restrictive relative clauses with non-actor head nouns Where found Wetan (Eastern Indonesian, Austronesian) Domain morphology:…
rarum 47
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rarum 47: use of an oblique case on a non-finite verb form to express evidentiality (hearsay, inferential) Where found Estonian and South Estonian dialects (Uralic);…
rarissimum 63
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rarissimum 63: pronoun of most respectful address recruited from pronoun of identity ((allerhöchst)dieselben), rather than from indefinite or least definite pronoun Where found 18th century…