rarum 82: parasitic gaps (rather than an overt resumptive pronouns), licensed in main clauses if and only if a coreferential NP in a topicalized, fronted…
rarum 82
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rarum 82: parasitic gaps (rather than an overt resumptive pronouns), licensed in main clauses if and only if a coreferential NP in a topicalized, fronted…
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rarissimum 121: adjective after the noun, rather than mirroring the order of adverb relative to verb, where basic word order is VO and adverb comes…
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rarum 83: some noun-phrase internal agreement but no agreement at clause level Where found (some) Pama-Nyungan (Australian); modern Continental Scandinavian Germanic (IE) Domain syntax Subdomain…
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rarissimum 122: a definite article formally distinct from (one form or another of) any kind of pronoun – demonstrative, personal (free, clitic, or bound), possessive,…
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rarissimum 84: relative pronoun as the only target for agreement in animacy Where found Modern Standard English (Germanic, IE) Domain syntax Subdomain agreement: controllers, targets,…
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rarissimum 135: a definite article only present in plural, but not in singular Where found Tok Pisin (English-based Pacific creole) Domain syntax Subdomain pronouns, articles…
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nonesuch 85: attributive adjectives agreeing (in gender, number, case) when they precede their noun but not when they follow it (using the invariable stem here)…
infrequentale (family possession) 136: verbs agreeing with subjects in person and number in non-past tenses, but in gender and number in the past tense Where…
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nonesuch 86: determiners and modifiers agreeing in all relevant agreement categories (gender, number, case) with only one of two or more conjoined nouns sharing these…
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rarissimum 137: object and subject NPs agreeing (a) in gender/class and number(b) in person Where found (a) Archi (Northeast Caucasian); Ripatransone dialect of Italian (Romance,…