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Fixed Stress Locations
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Penultimate |
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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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| 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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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person-number affixes |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Four-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 all demonstratives |
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Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
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No politeness distinction |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Obligatory |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive suffixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Identity |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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No tense-aspect inflection |
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The Morphological Imperative
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No second-person imperatives |
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The Prohibitive
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Normal imperative + special negative |
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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 either possibility or necessity |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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VS |
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Order of Object and Verb
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VO |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Prepositions |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Noun-Adjective |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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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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VO and Prepositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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VO and NRel |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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VO and NAdj |
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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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Antipassive Constructions
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No antipassive |
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Applicative Constructions
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Benefactive and other; both bases |
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Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
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Morphological but no compound |
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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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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is left implicit |
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