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The Velar Nasal
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No initial velar nasal |
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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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Strongly suffixing |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Number of Genders
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None |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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No gender |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
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No gender |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix |
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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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Indefinite Pronouns
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Special |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Identical |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Mixed |
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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 suffixes |
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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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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, Object and Verb
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SOV |
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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 Genitive and Noun
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Genitive-Noun |
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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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Relative clause-Noun |
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Order of Degree Word and Adjective
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Degree word-Adjective |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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Initial |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Mixed |
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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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OV and RelN |
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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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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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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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Polar Questions
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Mixture of previous two types |
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Predicative Possession
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'Have' |
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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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