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Vowel Nasalization
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Contrast absent |
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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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Strong prefixing |
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Case Syncretism
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No case marking |
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Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking
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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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Non-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 prefix |
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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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Unique periphrastic associative plural |
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Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns
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No inclusive/exclusive |
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Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection
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No inclusive/exclusive |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person only, but also non-singular |
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Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
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No politeness distinction |
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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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No morphological case-marking |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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No case-marking |
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Position of Case Affixes
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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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Distributive Numerals
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Marked by reduplication |
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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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Mixed type |
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The Morphological Imperative
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Second singular |
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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 absent |
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Situational Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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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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SVO |
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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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VO |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Prepositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Noun-Genitive |
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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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Noun-Demonstrative |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Noun-Numeral |
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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 Adjective and Noun
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VO and NAdj |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
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Neutral |
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Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns
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Neutral |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Both the A and P arguments |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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No zero realization |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A precedes P |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Mixed |
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Passive Constructions
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Present |
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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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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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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is left implicit |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Identical |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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