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Consonant Inventories
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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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High |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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In both plosives and fricatives |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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None missing in /p t k b d g/ |
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Uvular Consonants
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Uvular stops and continuants |
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Glottalized Consonants
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Ejectives only |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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The Velar Nasal
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No velar nasal |
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Vowel Nasalization
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Contrast absent |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Syllable Structure
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Complex |
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Tone
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No tones |
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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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Absence of Common Consonants
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All present |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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Pharyngeals |
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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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Monoexponential case |
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Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb
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10-11 categories per word |
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Locus of Marking in the Clause
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Double 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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Strongly suffixing |
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Case Syncretism
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Core and non-core |
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Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking
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Not syncretic |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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Five or more |
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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 and formal |
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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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The Associative Plural
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No associative plural |
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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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Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns
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Inclusive/exclusive |
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Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection
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No person marking |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Two-way contrast |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Unrelated |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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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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10 or more cases |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Syncretism in relevant NP-types |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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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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Marked by reduplication |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Absent |
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Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers
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Formally similar, with 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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Obligatory Possessive Inflection
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Absent |
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Possessive Classification
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No possessive classification |
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Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses
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Highly differentiated |
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Adjectives without Nouns
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Marked by suffix |
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Action Nominal Constructions
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Sentential |
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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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The Morphological Imperative
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Second person number-neutral |
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The Prohibitive
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Normal imperative + special negative |
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Imperative-Hortative Systems
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Maximal system |
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The Optative
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Inflectional optative present |
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Situational Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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Direct and indirect |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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Part of the tense system |
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Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
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Tense and aspect |
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Verbal Number and Suppletion
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Singular-plural pairs, suppletion |
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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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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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Relative clause-Noun |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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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 Relative Clause and Noun
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OV and RelN |
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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 AdjN |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
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Ergative - absolutive |
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Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns
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Ergative - absolutive |
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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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Obligatory 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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Antipassive Constructions
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No antipassive |
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Applicative Constructions
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No applicative construction |
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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 affix |
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation
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Symmetric |
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Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation
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Non-assignable |
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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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Gap |
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Relativization on Obliques
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Gap |
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Purpose Clauses
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Deranked |
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'When' Clauses
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Deranked |
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Utterance Complement Clauses
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Balanced/deranked |
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| Lexicon |
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Numeral Bases
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Hybrid vigesimal-decimal |
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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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No N-M pronouns |
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Tea
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Words derived from Sinitic cha |
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| Other |
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Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks
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Logical meanings |
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