nonesuch 41: stem suppletion of a noun (‘man, person’) essentially determined by number, with one stem used for all singular cases and another stem for…
nonesuch 41
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rarum 57
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rarum 57: a mixed (aka “common”, “resolution”, “indefinite”) gender in 3rd person (probably also 2nd and 1st person) non-singular pronouns for reference to mixed sets…
rarum 73
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rarum 73: duals up and down the referential hierarchy (ignoring INCL/EXCL) PRONOUNS NOUNS1ST 2ND 3RD (a)+DU—————-> in abundance+DU———–> –DU 65+ languages+DU——> –DU——> 3+ languages+DU –DU———–>…
rarissimum 89
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rarissimum 89: ergative (or neutral) case marking higher and accusative case marking lower on the referential hierarchy Where found PRONOUNS NOUNS 1ST 2ND 3RD ERG———–>…
nonesuch 105
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nonesuch 105: stress accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody, with contrastive tone on both stressed and unstressed syllables Where found…
rarissimum 121
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rarissimum 121: adjective after the noun, rather than mirroring the order of adverb relative to verb, where basic word order is VO and adverb comes…
rarissimum 137
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rarissimum 137: object and subject NPs agreeing (a) in gender/class and number(b) in person Where found (a) Archi (Northeast Caucasian); Ripatransone dialect of Italian (Romance,…
rarum 26
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rarum 26: ‘four’ as a regular base for a numeral system Where found Nyali (aka Huku, Bantu, Niger-Congo), Afudu (affiliation?, Africa); Hawaiian (originally; Polynesian, Austronesian);…
rarissimum 42
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rarissimum 42: number suppletion of the indefinite pronoun, with the singular form identical to the numeral ‘one’ and (here comes the nonesuch) the plural (and…
nonesuch 58
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nonesuch 58: contrast in pronouns for 2nd and 3rd person for sex of the referent and also of the speaker Where found Diuxi Mixtec (Oto-Manguean)…