| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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Five or more |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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Non-sex-based |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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Semantic and formal |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, always obligatory |
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Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
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Identical |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Related by gender markers |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person only, but also non-singular |
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Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
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No politeness distinction |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Generic-noun-based |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No person marking |
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| Nominal Syntax |
|---|
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Noun Phrase Conjunction
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'And' identical to 'with' |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Differentiation |
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| Verbal Categories |
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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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Special 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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Other |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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No overlap |
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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 Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Prepositions |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
|
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
|
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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Final |
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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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| Simple Clauses |
|---|
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Neutral |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Obligatory pronouns in subject position |
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Verbal Person Marking
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No person marking |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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No person marking |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Mixed |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Periphrastic Causative Constructions
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Sequential but no purposive |
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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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Double negation |
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Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
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Predicate negation also present |
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Polar Questions
|
Question particle |
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Predicative Possession
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'Have' |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Mixed |
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Nominal and Locational Predication
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Identical |
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Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
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Impossible |
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| Complex Sentences |
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Relativization on Subjects
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Pronoun-retention |
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Relativization on Obliques
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Pronoun-retention |
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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
|
Different |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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