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 146
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rarissimum 35
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rarissimum 35: zero exponence for plural, non-zero for singular (not singulative!) as well as dual Where found Imonda (Trans-New Guinea, “Papuan”) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain…
nonesuch 51
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nonesuch 51: lack of even a minimal binary contrast (proximal/distal) in basic local adverbial deictics Where found Bavarian (Germanic, IE) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain complexity…
nonesuch 67
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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).…
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 20
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nonesuch 20: Foot Harmony: If at least one foot of a word constitutes a canonical /∪’- / iamb, then all feet of the word are…