| Phonology |
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Consonant Inventories
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Moderately small |
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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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Average |
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Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
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No voicing constrast |
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Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
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Other |
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Uvular Consonants
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None |
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Glottalized Consonants
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No glottalized consonants |
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Lateral Consonants
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/l/, no obstruent laterals |
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Front Rounded Vowels
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None |
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Syllable Structure
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Simple |
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Tone
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No tones |
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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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Absence of Common Consonants
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All present |
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Presence of Uncommon Consonants
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None |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural word |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, always optional |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person-number stem |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Two-way contrast |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Noun Phrase Conjunction
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'And' different from 'with' |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Identity |
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| Verbal Categories |
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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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Special imperative + special negative |
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Imperative-Hortative Systems
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Minimal system |
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The Optative
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Inflectional optative absent |
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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 Object, Oblique, and Verb
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VOX |
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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 Demonstrative and Noun
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Noun-Demonstrative |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Numeral-Noun |
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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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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject pronouns in different position |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Indirect-object 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 particle |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Verbal encoding |
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Nominal and Locational Predication
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Different |
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Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
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Possible |
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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is expressed overtly |
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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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