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…
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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…
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rarum 39: nominative (marking intransitive and transitive subject) as the morphologically marked case vis-Ã -vis (zero-marked) accusative (marking direct object), for all nouns or for some…
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rarissimum 55: gender contrast in personal pronouns exclusively in 1st person singular Where found Tocharian A (IE); Thai (Daic, Austroasiatic) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain categories…
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rarum 71: no number inflection at all on any personal pronouns Where found Mura Pirahã (isolate, Macro-Chibchan); Kawi (Old Javanese, Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian) Domain morphology: inflection…
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rarissimum 40: stem suppletion of an adjectival word (viz., the cardinal numeral ‘one’) determined by gender Where found Classical Greek (Hellenic, IE) Domain morphology: inflection…
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nonesuch 56: gender contrast (MASC/FEM) in personal pronouns exclusively in 1st person plural, both inclusive and exclusive Where found Shirumba (Heiban, Kordofanian) Domain morphology: inflection…
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rarissimum 72: number marking (for plural and dual) on personal pronouns (suppletive) as well as on expressives (or ideophones; by suffix, which is unusual in…
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nonesuch 41: stem suppletion of a noun (‘man, person’) essentially determined by number, with one stem used for all singular cases and another stem for…
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rarum 57: a mixed (aka “common”, “resolution”, “indefinite”) gender in 3rd person (probably also 2nd and 1st person) non-singular pronouns for reference to mixed sets…
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rarum 73: duals up and down the referential hierarchy (ignoring INCL/EXCL) PRONOUNS NOUNS1ST 2ND 3RD (a)+DU—————-> in abundance+DU———–> –DU 65+ languages+DU——> –DU——> 3+ languages+DU –DU———–>…