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Fixed Stress Locations
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No fixed stress |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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Long vowel |
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| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Weakly suffixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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Two |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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Sex-based |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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Semantic and formal |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Mixed morphological plural |
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Definite Articles
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Definite affix |
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Indefinite Articles
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No indefinite, but definite article |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Two-way contrast |
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Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
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Different stem |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Identical |
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Position of Case Affixes
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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Ordinal Numerals
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First, two-th, three-th |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive suffixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Mixed type |
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The Morphological Imperative
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Second singular and second plural |
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The Prohibitive
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Normal imperative + special negative |
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Situational Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Epistemic Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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Overlap for either possibility or necessity |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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Indirect only |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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Verbal affix or clitic |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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SVO |
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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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VO |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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VOX |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Prepositions |
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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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Mixed |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Numeral-Noun |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Degree word-Adjective |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Initial subordinator word |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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VO and Prepositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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VO 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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VO and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative particle |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative intonation only |
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Comparative Constructions
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Locational |
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| Complex Sentences |
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Purpose Clauses
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Balanced/deranked |
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'When' Clauses
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Balanced/deranked |
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Reason Clauses
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Balanced/deranked |
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Utterance Complement Clauses
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Balanced/deranked |
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