| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Weakly suffixing |
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Reduplication
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Productive full and partial reduplication |
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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 clitic |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, always obligatory |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Three-way contrast |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Unrelated |
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Number of Cases
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No morphological case-marking |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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No case-marking |
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Position of Case Affixes
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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Identity |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Obligatory |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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Possessive suffixes |
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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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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Mixed type |
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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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Normal imperative + special 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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Verbal constructions |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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No overlap |
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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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| 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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No dominant order |
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Order of Object and Verb
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VO |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Prepositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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No dominant order |
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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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Noun-Numeral |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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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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Initial interrogative phrase |
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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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VO and Prepositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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VO and NRel |
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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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Optional pronouns in subject position |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative particle |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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Predicative Possession
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Topic |
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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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Purpose Clauses
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Deranked |
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'When' Clauses
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Balanced |
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Reason Clauses
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Balanced |
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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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