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:…
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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:…
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nonesuch 100: vowel harmony in terms of vowel peripherality, rather than of backness (palatal harmony), roundness (labial harmony), or ATR (height harmony) Where found Pasiego…
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nonesuch 146: different forms of the verb ‘to say’ depending on the sex of the person whose speaking is reported:bada ‘[a man] said’, mana ‘[a…
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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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nonesuch 102: intervocalic consonant clusters of decreasing sonority in toto assigned to onsets of second syllables Where found Malayalam (Dravidian) Domain phonology Subdomain syllable structure…
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nonesuch 51: lack of even a minimal binary contrast (proximal/distal) in basic local adverbial deictics Where found Bavarian (Germanic, IE) Domain morphology: inflection Subdomain complexity…
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nonesuch 103: word-stress on every second mora, realized (as pitch accent) on vowel of the respective syllable, main on second mora, secondary on fourth, sixth,…
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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…
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nonesuch 104: secondary word-stress on odd-numbered word-final syllables, but only if the word is morphologically complex, irrespective of its morphological composition; no secondary stress in…
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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…