rarissimum 61: choice of 3rd person personal pronoun determined by gender (MASC/FEM/NEUT, contrasting in SG only and not corresponding to animacy distinctions in any consistent…
rarissimum 61
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syntax
nonesuch 116
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nonesuch 116: different definite article depending on whether an accompanying adjective denotes colour or another kind of property concept Where found Belhare (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman) Domain…
rarissimum 46
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rarissimum 46: nouns requiring marking for person Where found Elamite (extinct isolate, Ancient Near East); Nama (Khoisan) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain locus Keywords noun, person…
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nonesuch 62: inflection of the great majority of words – nominal, pronominal, verbal –for sex of the speaker (and, in the case of male forms,…
rarissimum 117
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rarissimum 117: sets of local cases regularly distinguishing whether locatum is above, below, or on same level as deictic reference point Where found Bantawa, Belhare,…
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nonesuch 31: reduplication of verb to form finite verb of restrictive relative clauses with non-actor head nouns Where found Wetan (Eastern Indonesian, Austronesian) Domain morphology:…
rarum 47
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rarum 47: use of an oblique case on a non-finite verb form to express evidentiality (hearsay, inferential) Where found Estonian and South Estonian dialects (Uralic);…
rarissimum 63
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rarissimum 63: pronoun of most respectful address recruited from pronoun of identity ((allerhöchst)dieselben), rather than from indefinite or least definite pronoun Where found 18th century…
rarissimum 118
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rarissimum 118: neither tense nor aspect grammaticalized at all Where found Maybrat, Hatam, perhaps further languages of the Bird’s Head area, New Guinea (non-Austronesian) Domain…
rarissimum 32
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rarissimum 32: plural marking of a small subset of nouns (persons, kin) by lengthening of the vowel of the antepenultimate syllable, not a salient structural…