nonesuch 68: an ambal (aka ‘paral’, only referring to natural pairs) in addition to a dual (referring to any two referents) Where found Tocharian A…
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nonesuch 68: an ambal (aka ‘paral’, only referring to natural pairs) in addition to a dual (referring to any two referents) Where found Tocharian A…
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rarissimum 84: relative pronoun as the only target for agreement in animacy Where found Modern Standard English (Germanic, IE) Domain syntax Subdomain agreement: controllers, targets,…
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nonesuch 100: vowel harmony in terms of vowel peripherality, rather than of backness (palatal harmony), roundness (labial harmony), or ATR (height harmony) Where found Pasiego…
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nonesuch 116: different definite article depending on whether an accompanying adjective denotes colour or another kind of property concept Where found Belhare (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman) Domain…
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nonesuch 132: a phoneme inventory with almost 40 times as many consonants as vowels Where found Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords…
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rarissimum 37: absolutive singular (marking intransitive subject) as the morphologically most complex noun form, expressed by a variety of suffixes or also by reduplication of…
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rarissimum 53: gender contrast of nouns, but not of pronouns (except interrogative ones, in Teop) Where found Turkana (Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan); Teop (Bougainville, Oceanic, Austronesian) Domain…
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rarissimum 69: a quadral number with personal pronouns Where found Sursurunga, Tangga (both Patpatar-Tolai, Austronesian) (?) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain categories and their domains: person,…
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nonesuch 85: attributive adjectives agreeing (in gender, number, case) when they precede their noun but not when they follow it (using the invariable stem here)…
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rarissimum 101: VC as (the only or preferred) syllable type, with VC0CV thus syllabified as VC0C.V rather than as VC0.CV, at least at some level…