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Fixed Stress Locations
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Second |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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No weight |
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Rhythm Types
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Trochaic |
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| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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Reduplication
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Productive full and partial reduplication |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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No plural |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, always optional |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Three-way contrast |
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Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
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Identical |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Interrogative-based |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive suffixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Adjectives without Nouns
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Without marking |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Differentiation |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
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Grammatical marking |
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The Past Tense
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Present, no remoteness distinctions |
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The Future Tense
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Inflectional future exists |
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The Perfect
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Other perfect |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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SOV |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
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OV |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Postpositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Noun-Genitive |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Noun-Adjective |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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Noun-Demonstrative |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Noun-Numeral |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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OV and Postpositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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OV and NRel |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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OV and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Mixed |
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Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
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Morphological but no compound |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative affix |
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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is left implicit |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Different |
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Finger and Hand
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Identical |
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