rarum 30

rarum 30: case distinction exclusively by tone

Where found

Eastern (or Para-)Nilotic (Nilo-Saharan); (some) Cushitic, (some) Omotic (?) (Afroasiatic); (some) Bantu, Bantoid, Kwa (Niger-Congo); Burmese (Tibeto-Burman, Sino-Tibetan) (?)

Domain

phonology, morphology

Subdomain

types of exponents and their uses

Keywords

case, tone

Type

rarum

Universals violated

none

Source

Bennett, Patrick R. (1974). Tone and the Nilotic case system. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 37: 19-28.
Plank, Frans (1995). (Re-)Introducing Suffixaufnahme. In Plank (ed.) 1995, 3-110.
Plank, Frans (ed.) (1995). Double Case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme. New York: Oxford University Press.
Okell (for Burmese, p.c. David Gil).