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The Velar Nasal
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No velar nasal |
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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-edge: Ultimate or penultimate |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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Combined |
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Rhythm Types
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Undetermined |
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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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Sex-based |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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Semantic and formal |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, always obligatory |
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The Associative Plural
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Unique periphrastic associative plural |
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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 by gender markers |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Generic-noun-based |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Identical |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Ordinal Numerals
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First, two-th, three-th |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Action Nominal Constructions
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Double-Possessive |
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Noun Phrase Conjunction
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'And' different from 'with' |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
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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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No inflectional future |
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The Perfect
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No perfect |
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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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Special imperative + special negative |
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Imperative-Hortative Systems
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Neither type of system |
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Situational Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Epistemic Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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Overlap for both possibility and necessity |
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Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
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None |
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Verbal Number and Suppletion
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None |
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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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Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
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Mixed behaviour |
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Predicative Possession
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Locational |
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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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Comparative Constructions
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Locational |
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| Lexicon |
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Tea
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Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te |
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| Other |
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Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks
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Logical meanings |
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