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
Posted in Raritätenkabinett
Month: May 2020
infrequentale (family possession) 145: of all cardinal numerals, only that for ‘four’ agreeing in gender Where found Chechen, Ingush, Tsova-Tush (NE Central, or Nakh, Daghestanian)…
infrequentale (family possession) 144: an asymmetric gender system, with genders distinguished in singular but not in plural, but a few words that do show a…
rarissimum 143
Posted in Raritätenkabinett
rarissimum 143: only a single adjective – that is, one item of a word class distinct from other word classes (in particular nouns and verbs)…
rarissimum 142
Posted in Raritätenkabinett
rarissimum 142: only a single preposition – that is, one item of a word class distinct from other word classes (nouns, pronouns, verbs, inflectional clitics,…
infrequentale (family possession) 141: gender as an agreement category only of verbs (controlled by subject), but not noun-phrase internally nor with anaphoric pronouns Where found…
nonesuch 140
Posted in Raritätenkabinett
nonesuch 140: number distinction (singular/plural) only on 2nd person pronouns, as well as on determiner demonstratives, and not on any other pronouns (including 1st) or…
rarissimum 139
Posted in Raritätenkabinett
rarissimum 139: adverbs agreeing in voice with the verbs they modify Where found Maori (Austronesian) Domain syntax Subdomain agreement: controllers, targets, categories, domains, conditions Keywords…
nonesuch 138
Posted in Raritätenkabinett
nonesuch 138: mixed ergative-accusative alignment, with person prefixes on intransitive verbs cross-referencing subject and person prefixes on transitive verbs cross-referencing object (=absolutive), while verbs also…
rarissimum 137
Posted in Raritätenkabinett
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,…