| 14A |
Fixed Stress Locations |
No fixed stress |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 15A |
Weight-Sensitive Stress |
Right-edge: Ultimate or penultimate |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 16A |
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems |
Long vowel |
Phonology |
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comment
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| 26A |
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology |
Weakly suffixing |
Morphology |
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comment
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| 30A |
Number of Genders |
Two |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 31A |
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems |
Sex-based |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 32A |
Systems of Gender Assignment |
Semantic and formal |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Mixed morphological plural |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 37A |
Definite Articles |
Definite affix |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 38A |
Indefinite Articles |
No indefinite, but definite article |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 41A |
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives |
Two-way contrast |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 42A |
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives |
Different stem |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 47A |
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns |
Identical |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 51A |
Position of Case Affixes |
No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 52A |
Comitatives and Instrumentals |
Differentiation |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
examples
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| 53A |
Ordinal Numerals |
First, two-th, three-th |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
Possessive suffixes |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Mixed type |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 70A |
The Morphological Imperative |
Second singular and second plural |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 71A |
The Prohibitive |
Normal imperative + special negative |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 74A |
Situational Possibility |
Verbal constructions |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 75A |
Epistemic Possibility |
Verbal constructions |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 76A |
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking |
Overlap for either possibility or necessity |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 77A |
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality |
Indirect only |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 78A |
Coding of Evidentiality |
Verbal affix or clitic |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
SVO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
SV |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
VO |
Word Order |
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comment
examples
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| 84A |
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb |
VOX |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 85A |
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
Prepositions |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Noun-Genitive |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 87A |
Order of Adjective and Noun |
Noun-Adjective |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 88A |
Order of Demonstrative and Noun |
Mixed |
Word Order |
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comment
examples
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| 89A |
Order of Numeral and Noun |
Numeral-Noun |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 90A |
Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
Noun-Relative clause |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 90C |
Postnominal relative clauses |
Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 91A |
Order of Degree Word and Adjective |
Degree word-Adjective |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 92A |
Position of Polar Question Particles |
No question particle |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 93A |
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions |
Not initial interrogative phrase |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 94A |
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause |
Initial subordinator word |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 95A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
VO and Prepositions |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 96A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
VO and NRel |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 97A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun |
VO and NAdj |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 101A |
Expression of Pronominal Subjects |
Subject affixes on verb |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 112A |
Negative Morphemes |
Negative particle |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 116A |
Polar Questions |
Interrogative intonation only |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 121A |
Comparative Constructions |
Locational |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 125A |
Purpose Clauses |
Balanced/deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 126A |
'When' Clauses |
Balanced/deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 127A |
Reason Clauses |
Balanced/deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 128A |
Utterance Complement Clauses |
Balanced/deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
NegV |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
NegV |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
None |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144A |
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb |
SNegVO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144B |
Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb |
Immed preverbal |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144D |
The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages |
SNegVO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144H |
NegSVO Order |
No NegSVO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144I |
SNegVO Order |
Word&NoDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144J |
SVNegO Order |
No SVNegO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144K |
SVONeg Order |
No SVONeg |
Word Order |
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comment
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