| 26A |
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology |
Strong prefixing |
Morphology |
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| 27A |
Reduplication |
Productive full and partial reduplication |
Morphology |
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comment
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Plural prefix |
Nominal Categories |
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
No possessive affixes |
Nominal Categories |
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comment
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| 65A |
Perfective/Imperfective Aspect |
Grammatical marking |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 66A |
The Past Tense |
Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions |
Verbal Categories |
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| 67A |
The Future Tense |
No inflectional future |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 68A |
The Perfect |
Other perfect |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Mixed type |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
SVO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
SV |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
VO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 85A |
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
Prepositions |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Noun-Genitive |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 87A |
Order of Adjective and Noun |
Noun-Adjective |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 88A |
Order of Demonstrative and Noun |
Noun-Demonstrative |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 90A |
Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
Noun-Relative clause |
Word Order |
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| 90C |
Postnominal relative clauses |
Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 92A |
Position of Polar Question Particles |
No question particle |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 93A |
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions |
Not initial interrogative phrase |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 94A |
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause |
Initial subordinator word |
Word Order |
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| 95A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
VO and Prepositions |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 96A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
VO and NRel |
Word Order |
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| 97A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun |
VO and NAdj |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 101A |
Expression of Pronominal Subjects |
Subject affixes on verb |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 105A |
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' |
Double-object construction |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 112A |
Negative Morphemes |
Negative affix |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 116A |
Polar Questions |
Interrogative intonation only |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 138A |
Tea |
Words derived from Sinitic cha |
Lexicon |
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comment
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
[Neg-V] |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
[Neg-V] |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
None |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144A |
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb |
MorphNeg |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144D |
The Position of Negative Morphemes in SVO Languages |
S[Neg-V]O |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144H |
NegSVO Order |
No NegSVO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144I |
SNegVO Order |
Prefix&NoDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144J |
SVNegO Order |
No SVNegO |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144K |
SVONeg Order |
No SVONeg |
Word Order |
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