rarissimum 8: laminal (tongue-blade) trill (see Image) Where found Czech (Slavonic, IE) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords laminal, trill Type rarissimum Universals violated none…
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rarissimum 8: laminal (tongue-blade) trill (see Image) Where found Czech (Slavonic, IE) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords laminal, trill Type rarissimum Universals violated none…
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rarissimum 10: velar fricative (see Image) as the sole fricative (if this is what it is), rather than the expected /s/ Where found Iwaidjian (non-Pama…
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rarissimum 15: three-way quantity contrast of both vowels and consonants Where found Estonian (?), Livonian (?), Saami (?) (all Uralic) Domain phonology Subdomain quantity Keywords…
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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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rarissimum 74: endoclitics occurring not only inside morphologically complex words, but even within monomorphemic words, with the positioning of the clitic (a)regulated by one general…
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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…
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rarissimum 42: number suppletion of the indefinite pronoun, with the singular form identical to the numeral ‘one’ and (here comes the nonesuch) the plural (and…
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rarissimum 76: adverb as a distinct word class but not adjective Where found Kambera (Malayo-Polynesian); Kwaza (unclassified, S. Rondônia, Brazil) Domain syntax Subdomain word classes…
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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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rarissimum 43: definite article co-expressing tense (past vs. non-past) Where found Chamicuro (Maipuran Arawakan) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain cumulation, sensitivity Keywords definite article, tense Type…