infrequentale (family possession) 36: inverse number marking: same exponent denoting singular, dual, or plural in different declensions, depending on which number is least expected from…
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nonesuch 52
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nonesuch 52: a divine gender (for nouns for gods, saints, comets, and other supernatural referents), contrasting with masculine, feminine, animal, and inanimate genders Where found…
nonesuch 68
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nonesuch 68: an ambal (aka ‘paral’, only referring to natural pairs) in addition to a dual (referring to any two referents) Where found Tocharian A…
rarissimum 37
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rarissimum 37: absolutive singular (marking intransitive subject) as the morphologically most complex noun form, expressed by a variety of suffixes or also by reduplication of…
rarissimum 53
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rarissimum 53: gender contrast of nouns, but not of pronouns (except interrogative ones, in Teop) Where found Turkana (Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan); Teop (Bougainville, Oceanic, Austronesian) Domain…
rarissimum 69
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rarissimum 69: a quadral number with personal pronouns Where found Sursurunga, Tangga (both Patpatar-Tolai, Austronesian) (?) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain categories and their domains: person,…
rarissimum 38
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rarissimum 38: absolutive (marking intransitive subject and transitive direct object) as the morphologically marked case vis-à-vis (zero-marked) ergative (marking transitive subject), (a) on NPs which…
rarissimum 54
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rarissimum 54: gender contrast (MASC/FEM) in personal pronouns for 2nd, 3rd, and sometimes also 1st plural and for 2nd singular but not for 1st and…
rarissimum 70
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rarissimum 70: independent personal pronouns for 1st and 3rd (animate) person inflecting for both number and case, but that for 2nd person inflecting for neither…
rarum 39
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rarum 39: nominative (marking intransitive and transitive subject) as the morphologically marked case vis-à-vis (zero-marked) accusative (marking direct object), for all nouns or for some…