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Fixed Stress Locations
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Ultimate |
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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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Long vowel or coda consonant |
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Rhythm Types
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Iambic |
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| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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Two |
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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 |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, optional in inanimates |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person-number stem |
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Definite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Indefinite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Two-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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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Interrogative-based |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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Pronouns only |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Ordinal Numerals
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First/one-th, two-th, three-th |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive prefixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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The Morphological Imperative
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Second singular and second plural |
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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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Neither type of system |
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The Optative
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Inflectional optative absent |
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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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Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
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Tense |
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Verbal Number and Suppletion
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None |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Subject and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Object and Verb
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OV |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Postpositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Genitive-Noun |
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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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Demonstrative-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
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Numeral-Noun |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Mixed |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Adjective-Degree word |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Final 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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OV and Postpositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Other |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
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OV and NAdj |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Ergative |
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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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Zero in some 3sg forms |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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P precedes A |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Indirect-object construction |
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Passive Constructions
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Present |
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Antipassive Constructions
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No antipassive |
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Applicative Constructions
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No applicative 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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Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
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Predicate negation also present |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative intonation only |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Nonverbal encoding |
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Nominal and Locational Predication
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Identical |
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Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
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Possible |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Desiderative verbal affix |
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