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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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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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Number of Genders
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None |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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No gender |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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No gender |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person-number stem |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Two-way contrast |
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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 for non-human reference |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Interrogative-based |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No adpositions |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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No possessive affixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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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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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 Genitive and Noun
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No dominant order |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Noun-Adjective |
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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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Noun-Numeral |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Degree word-Adjective |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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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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Neutral |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Optional 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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Indirect-object construction |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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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 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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Different |
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Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
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Possible |
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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is left implicit |
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Purpose Clauses
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Deranked |
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| Lexicon |
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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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