rarissimum 142: only a single preposition – that is, one item of a word class distinct from other word classes (nouns, pronouns, verbs, inflectional clitics, particles, ideophones, and COMP words) and comparable to a word class of adpositions in other languages
Where found
Wari’ (Chapacuran, Amazonian)
Domain
syntax
Subdomain
word classes
Keywords
adposition
Type
rarissimum
Universals violated
Source
Everett, Daniel L. (1998). Wari’ (Amazonian). In Andrew Spencer & Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), Handbook of Morphology, 690-706. Oxford: Blackwell. Everett, Daniel L. & Barbara Kern (1997). Wari’: The Pacaas Novos Language of Western Brazil. London: Routledge.
The single Wari’ preposition inflects, often suppletively, for person, number, gender.