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Fixed Stress Locations
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Initial |
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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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No rhythmic stress |
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| Morphology |
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Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives
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Exclusively concatenative |
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Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives
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No case |
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Locus of Marking in the Clause
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Head marking |
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Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
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Dependent marking |
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Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
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Inconsistent or other |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Weakly prefixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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Four |
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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 |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural prefix |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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Only human nouns, optional |
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Definite Articles
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Demonstrative word used as definite article |
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Indefinite Articles
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Indefinite word same as 'one' |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Mixed |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Identity |
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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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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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No dominant order |
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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 Object, Oblique, and Verb
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OVX |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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No dominant order |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Genitive-Noun |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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No dominant order |
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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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No dominant order |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Adjective-Degree word |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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Initial |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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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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Other |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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Other |
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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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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Secondary-object construction |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative particle |
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Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
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Predicate negation also present |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is expressed overtly |
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