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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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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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Definite Articles
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No definite, but indefinite article |
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Indefinite Articles
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Indefinite word same as 'one' |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Unrelated |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No person marking |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Obligatory |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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No possessive affixes |
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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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| Word Order |
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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 Object, Oblique, and Verb
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XOV |
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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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Position of Polar Question Particles
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No question particle |
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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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Subordinating suffix |
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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 Adjective and Noun
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OV and AdjN |
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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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Subject affixes on verb |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Only the A argument |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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Zero in all 3rd person forms |
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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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Passive Constructions
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Absent |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative affix |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative verb morphology |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Nonverbal 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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Comparative Constructions
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Locational |
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