| 26A |
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology |
Weakly prefixing |
Morphology |
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| 27A |
Reduplication |
Productive full and partial reduplication |
Morphology |
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| 36A |
The Associative Plural |
Associative same as additive plural |
Nominal Categories |
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| 37A |
Definite Articles |
Demonstrative word used as definite article |
Nominal Categories |
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| 49A |
Number of Cases |
6-7 cases |
Nominal Categories |
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| 50A |
Asymmetrical Case-Marking |
Symmetrical |
Nominal Categories |
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| 51A |
Position of Case Affixes |
Case prefixes |
Nominal Categories |
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| 63A |
Noun Phrase Conjunction |
'And' identical to 'with' |
Nominal Syntax |
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Mixed type |
Verbal Categories |
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| 77A |
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality |
No grammatical evidentials |
Verbal Categories |
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| 78A |
Coding of Evidentiality |
No grammatical evidentials |
Verbal Categories |
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
VSO |
Word Order |
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
VS |
Word Order |
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
VO |
Word Order |
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Noun-Genitive |
Word Order |
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| 88A |
Order of Demonstrative and Noun |
Demonstrative-Noun |
Word Order |
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| 94A |
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause |
Initial subordinator word |
Word Order |
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| 111A |
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions |
Morphological but no compound |
Simple Clauses |
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| 112A |
Negative Morphemes |
Negative particle |
Simple Clauses |
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| 118A |
Predicative Adjectives |
Verbal encoding |
Simple Clauses |
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| 119A |
Nominal and Locational Predication |
Different |
Simple Clauses |
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| 120A |
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals |
Impossible |
Simple Clauses |
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| 129A |
Hand and Arm |
Different |
Lexicon |
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| 130A |
Finger and Hand |
Identical |
Lexicon |
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| 130B |
Cultural Categories of Languages with Identity of 'Finger' and 'Hand' |
Hunter-gatherers |
Lexicon |
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
NegV |
Word Order |
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
NegV |
Word Order |
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
None |
Word Order |
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
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| 144A |
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb |
NegVSO |
Word Order |
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| 144B |
Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb |
Immed preverbal |
Word Order |
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| 144T |
The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages |
NegVSO |
Word Order |
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| 144V |
Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative |
Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
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| 144W |
Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object |
None |
Word Order |
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| 144X |
Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative |
No clause-final neg |
Word Order |
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