| Phonology |
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Fixed Stress Locations
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Penultimate |
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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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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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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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No plural |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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Only human nouns, optional |
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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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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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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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3rd person singular only |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No adpositions |
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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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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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Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
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Identity |
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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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No second-person imperatives |
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Imperative-Hortative Systems
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Neither type of system |
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The Optative
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Inflectional optative absent |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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No dominant order |
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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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No dominant order |
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Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
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No dominant order |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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No adpositions |
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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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Demonstrative-Noun |
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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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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
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Other |
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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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Other |
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| Simple Clauses |
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Split |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Both the A and P arguments |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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Zero in all 3sg forms |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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Both orders of A and P occur |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Secondary-object construction |
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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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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 affix |
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Predicative Possession
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Conjunctional |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Mixed |
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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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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Desiderative verbal affix |
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| Lexicon |
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M-T Pronouns
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No M-T pronouns |
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N-M Pronouns
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No N-M pronouns |
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