rarum 73: duals up and down the referential hierarchy (ignoring INCL/EXCL)
PRONOUNS NOUNS
1ST 2ND 3RD
(a)
+DU—————-> in abundance
+DU———–> –DU 65+ languages
+DU——> –DU——> 3+ languages
+DU –DU———–> 9+ languages
+DU—————-> over half of all (existing) lgs
(b)
–DU +DU———–> Cl. Arabic (Semitic, Afroasiatic) +
–DU——> +DU——> Ugaritic (Semitic, Afroasiatic) +
–DU———–> +DU 10+ languages
+DU——> –DU +DU Kewa (“Papuan”) (?)
+DU –DU +DU——> northern dialects of Ostyak (Uralic)
–DU——> +DU –DU 4+ languages
–DU +DU –DU——> in no (attested) language (?)
+DU –DU——> +DU in no (attested) language (?)
–DU +DU——> –DU Rawa (Trans-NG, “Papuan”) (?)
+DU –DU +DU –DU Sedang (Austroasiatic)
–DU +DU –DU +DU in no (attested) language (?)
- Where found
- see above, or see Image – if you can
- Domain
- morphology: inflection
- Subdomain
- categories and their domains: person, number
- Keywords
- dual, personal pronouns
- Type
- rarum
- Universals violated
- not in the (a), but in the (b) patterns: referential hierarchy (Smith-Stark and others)
- 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)
