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rarum 66

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rarum 66: dual with 1st person exclusive but not with 1st person inclusive

Where found
Yagua (Ge-Pano-Carib); Tübatulabal (Uto-Aztecan) (?); Savosavo (East Papuan) (?); Ngankikurrungkurr (nonPN, Australian) (?)
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
categories and their domains: person, number
Keywords
inclusive, exclusive, dual
Type
rarum
Universals violated
Source
Plank, Frans (1996). Domains of the dual, in Maltese and in general. In Albert Borg & Frans Plank (eds.), The Maltese Noun Phrase Meets Typology, 123-140. Pisa: Pacini (Rivista di Linguistica 8–1.)
DuDa (Konstanz Dual Database, maintained by Frans Plank and Wolfgang Schellinger)

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Tübatulabal (Uto-Aztecan) has a dual with 1st person exclusive, but not with 1st person inclusive, at least according to the grammatical account of Voegelin 1935; the accompanying collection of texts, however, tells a different story (caveat credited to Michael Cysouw).

    1. May 2020

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