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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Little affixation |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural word |
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The Associative Plural
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Associative same as additive plural |
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Definite Articles
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Definite word distinct from demonstrative |
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Indefinite Articles
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Indefinite word distinct from 'one' |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Related for non-human reference |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Identical |
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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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No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Differentiation |
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Ordinal Numerals
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One-th, two-th, three-th |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Absent |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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No possessive affixes |
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| Nominal Syntax |
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Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses
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Moderately differentiated in other ways |
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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Differentiation |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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No tense-aspect inflection |
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The Morphological Imperative
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Second person number-neutral |
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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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Singular-plural pairs, no suppletion |
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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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SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
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VO |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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VOX |
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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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Noun-Genitive |
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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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No dominant order |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
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Final |
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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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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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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Obligatory pronouns in subject position |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Only the P argument |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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No person marking |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb |
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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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Absent |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative word, unclear if verb or particle |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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Predicative Possession
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Conjunctional |
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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is left implicit |
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Utterance Complement Clauses
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Balanced/deranked |
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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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