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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-oriented: One of the last three |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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Coda consonant |
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Rhythm Types
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Trochaic |
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| 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 suffix |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, always obligatory |
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The Associative Plural
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No associative plural |
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Definite Articles
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Definite word distinct from demonstrative |
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Indefinite Articles
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Indefinite word distinct from 'one' |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person singular only |
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Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
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Binary politeness distinction |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Special |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Identical |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No person marking |
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Number of Cases
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No morphological case-marking |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical |
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Position of Case Affixes
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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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Ordinal Numerals
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First, two-th, three-th |
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Distributive Numerals
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No distributive numerals |
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Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers
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Formally similar, without interrogative |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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No possessive affixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Action Nominal Constructions
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Ergative-Possessive |
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Noun Phrase Conjunction
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'And' different from 'with' |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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The Morphological Imperative
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Second person number-neutral |
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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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Situational Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Epistemic Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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Overlap for both possibility and necessity |
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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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Modal morpheme |
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Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
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Tense |
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Verbal Number and Suppletion
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None |
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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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No dominant order |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Prepositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Noun-Genitive |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Adjective-Noun |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
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Demonstrative-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Numeral-Noun |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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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 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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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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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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Only the A argument |
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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 and P do not or do not both occur on the verb |
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Passive Constructions
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Present |
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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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No predicate negation |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative word order |
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Predicative Possession
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'Have' |
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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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Impossible |
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Comparative Constructions
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Particle |
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Hand and Arm
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Different |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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Tea
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Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te |
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Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks
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Affective meanings |
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