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…
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Month: May 2020
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rarum 125: when tone is privative, low tone as marked (hence phonologically active) relative to (phonologically inactive) high tone, rather than the other way round…
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rarissimum 124: voiceless apico-dental plosive followed by a voiceless bilabial trill behaving as a single segment(see Image) Where found in about a dozen words each…
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rarum 123: the verb ‘to eat’ grammaticalized as middle or auto-benefactive marker (‘to do something for oneself, on one’s own’), possibly via a meaning ‘to…
rarissimum 122
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rarissimum 122: a definite article formally distinct from (one form or another of) any kind of pronoun – demonstrative, personal (free, clitic, or bound), possessive,…
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…
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rarum 120: interrogative pro verbs Where found Southern Paiute (Uto-Aztecan); Chukchi (Chukchi-Kamchatkan); Mandarin (Chinese, Sino-Tibetan); Yankunytjatjara (aka Western Desert (PN), Kayardild ((non?) PN), and many…
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rarum 119: “conjunct vs. disjunct” system of (bound) person marking, with the conjunct form referring to the speaker in statements and the addressee in questions,…
rarissimum 118
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rarissimum 118: neither tense nor aspect grammaticalized at all Where found Maybrat, Hatam, perhaps further languages of the Bird’s Head area, New Guinea (non-Austronesian) Domain…
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rarissimum 117: sets of local cases regularly distinguishing whether locatum is above, below, or on same level as deictic reference point Where found Bantawa, Belhare,…