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rarissimum 54

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rarissimum 54: gender contrast (MASC/FEM) in personal pronouns for 2nd, 3rd, and sometimes also 1st plural and for 2nd singular but not for 1st and 3rd singular, in some pronominal paradigms

Where found
TĂ hĂ ggart, Tuareg, Kabyle, Proto-Berber (?!) (Berber, Afroasiatic) [a family trait: limited to Berber but not shared by all members]
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
categories and their domains: gender, respect
Keywords
personal pronoun, person, number
Type
rarissimum
Universals violated
, ,
Source
Plank, Frans & Wolfgang Schellinger (1997). The uneven distribution of genders over numbers: Greenberg Nos. 37 and 45. Linguistic Typology 1: 53-101.