| Nominal Categories |
|---|
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Number of Genders
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Three |
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Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
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Sex-based |
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Systems of Gender Assignment
|
Semantic |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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Only human nouns, obligatory |
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Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
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Person 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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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
|
Two-way contrast |
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Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives
|
Identical |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Related for all demonstratives |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
|
3rd person singular only |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
|
Pronouns only |
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Position of Case Affixes
|
Postpositional clitics |
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| Nominal Syntax |
|---|
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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
|
Tense-aspect suffixes |
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The Morphological Imperative
|
Second singular and second plural |
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The Prohibitive
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Special imperative + special negative |
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Imperative-Hortative Systems
|
Maximal system |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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Direct and indirect |
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Coding of Evidentiality
|
Verbal affix or clitic |
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| Word Order |
|---|
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
|
SOV |
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Order of Subject and Verb
|
SV |
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Order of Object and Verb
|
OV |
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Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
|
Postpositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
|
Genitive-Noun |
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Order of Adjective and Noun
|
Adjective-Noun |
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Order of Demonstrative and Noun
|
Demonstrative-Noun |
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Order of Numeral and Noun
|
Numeral-Noun |
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Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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Internally headed |
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Position of Polar Question Particles
|
Initial |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
|
Initial interrogative phrase |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
|
OV and Postpositions |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
|
Other |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
|
OV and AdjN |
|
| Simple Clauses |
|---|
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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
|
Accusative |
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Verbal Person Marking
|
Both the A and P arguments |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
|
No zero realization |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
|
P precedes A |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
|
Double-object construction |
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Passive Constructions
|
Absent |
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Periphrastic Causative Constructions
|
Purposive but no sequential |
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Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions
|
Morphological but no compound |
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Negative Morphemes
|
Negative affix |
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Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
|
Predicate negation also present |
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Polar Questions
|
Question particle |
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Predicative Adjectives
|
Nonverbal encoding |
|
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Nominal and Locational Predication
|
Identical |
|
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Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
|
Possible |
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| Complex Sentences |
|---|
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'Want' Complement Subjects
|
Subject is left implicit |
|
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Purpose Clauses
|
Deranked |
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'When' Clauses
|
Balanced/deranked |
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Reason Clauses
|
Deranked |
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Utterance Complement Clauses
|
Balanced |
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| Lexicon |
|---|
|
Hand and Arm
|
Different |
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Finger and Hand
|
Different |
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