| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural word |
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Definite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Indefinite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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Pronouns only |
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Position of Case Affixes
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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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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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| 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, 4 or more 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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No perfect |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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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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Separate particle |
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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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No dominant order |
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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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Genitive-Noun |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Noun-Adjective |
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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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Subordinating suffix |
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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 Adjective and Noun
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OV and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Both the A and P arguments |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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No zero realization |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A precedes P |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative affix |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Nonverbal encoding |
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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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Possible |
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| Lexicon |
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Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories
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4 |
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Number of Basic Colour Categories
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3-4 |
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Green and Blue
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Green/blue |
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Red and Yellow
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Red/yellow |
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