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Fixed Stress Locations
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No fixed stress |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Right-oriented: One of the last three |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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Long vowel |
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Rhythm Types
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Trochaic |
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| Morphology |
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Locus of Marking in the Clause
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Dependent marking |
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Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
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Dependent marking |
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Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
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Dependent-marking |
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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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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural word |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Interrogative-based |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Identity |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
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No grammatical marking |
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The Past Tense
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Present, no remoteness distinctions |
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The Future Tense
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Inflectional future exists |
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The Perfect
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Other perfect |
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The Morphological Imperative
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Second person number-neutral |
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The Prohibitive
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Normal imperative + normal 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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Epistemic Possibility
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Affixes on verbs |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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No overlap |
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| Word Order |
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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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OV |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Postpositions |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
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Adjective-Noun |
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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 Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Initial 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 AdjN |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Indirect-object construction |
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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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