| Phonology |
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Consonant Inventories
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Moderately large |
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Vowel Quality Inventories
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Average (5-6) |
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Consonant-Vowel Ratio
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Moderately high |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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In fricatives alone |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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Other |
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Uvular Consonants
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Uvular stops only |
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Glottalized Consonants
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No glottalized consonants |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Tone
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No tones |
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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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Combined |
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Rhythm Types
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Undetermined |
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Absence of Common Consonants
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All present |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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None |
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| Morphology |
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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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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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No plural |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person stem + pronominal plural affix |
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Definite Articles
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Definite word distinct from demonstrative |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Postpositional clitics |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive prefixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Obligatory Possessive Inflection
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Exists |
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Possessive Classification
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Two classes |
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Action Nominal Constructions
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No action nominals |
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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 + normal negative |
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Imperative-Hortative Systems
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Neither type of system |
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Epistemic Possibility
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Affixes on verbs |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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No overlap |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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SOV |
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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 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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Only internally-headed relative clauses |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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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
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Internally headed |
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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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No question particle |
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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 Relative Clause and Noun
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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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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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Negative auxiliary verb |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative verb morphology |
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| Complex Sentences |
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Relativization on Subjects
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Non-reduction |
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Relativization on Obliques
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Non-reduction |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is expressed overtly |
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'When' Clauses
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Deranked |
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Reason Clauses
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Deranked |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Identical |
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Finger and Hand
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Identical |
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M-T Pronouns
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No M-T pronouns |
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N-M Pronouns
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N-M pronouns, paradigmatic |
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