| 26A |
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology |
Weakly suffixing |
Morphology |
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Plural suffix |
Nominal Categories |
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| 41A |
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives |
Two-way contrast |
Nominal Categories |
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| 42A |
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives |
Different stem |
Nominal Categories |
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| 44A |
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns |
No gender distinctions |
Nominal Categories |
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| 48A |
Person Marking on Adpositions |
Pronouns only |
Nominal Categories |
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| 51A |
Position of Case Affixes |
Case suffixes |
Nominal Categories |
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| 52A |
Comitatives and Instrumentals |
Differentiation |
Nominal Categories |
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| 53A |
Ordinal Numerals |
First, second, three-th |
Nominal Categories |
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| 55A |
Numeral Classifiers |
Obligatory |
Nominal Categories |
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
Possessive suffixes |
Nominal Categories |
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| 60A |
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses |
Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed |
Nominal Syntax |
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| 64A |
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction |
Differentiation |
Nominal Syntax |
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Tense-aspect prefixes |
Verbal Categories |
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| 70A |
The Morphological Imperative |
Second singular and second plural |
Verbal Categories |
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| 71A |
The Prohibitive |
Normal imperative + normal negative |
Verbal Categories |
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| 72A |
Imperative-Hortative Systems |
Neither type of system |
Verbal Categories |
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| 75A |
Epistemic Possibility |
Other |
Verbal Categories |
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
VSO |
Word Order |
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
VS |
Word Order |
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
VO |
Word Order |
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| 85A |
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
Prepositions |
Word Order |
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Noun-Genitive |
Word Order |
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| 87A |
Order of Adjective and Noun |
Noun-Adjective |
Word Order |
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| 88A |
Order of Demonstrative and Noun |
Noun-Demonstrative |
Word Order |
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| 89A |
Order of Numeral and Noun |
Noun-Numeral |
Word Order |
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| 90A |
Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
Noun-Relative clause |
Word Order |
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| 90C |
Postnominal relative clauses |
Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant |
Word Order |
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| 92A |
Position of Polar Question Particles |
Final |
Word Order |
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| 93A |
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions |
Initial interrogative phrase |
Word Order |
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| 95A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
VO and Prepositions |
Word Order |
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| 96A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
VO and NRel |
Word Order |
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| 97A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun |
VO and NAdj |
Word Order |
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| 100A |
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking |
Accusative |
Simple Clauses |
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| 101A |
Expression of Pronominal Subjects |
Subject affixes on verb |
Simple Clauses |
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| 102A |
Verbal Person Marking |
Only the A argument |
Simple Clauses |
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| 103A |
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking |
Zero in all 3rd person forms |
Simple Clauses |
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| 104A |
Order of Person Markers on the Verb |
A and P do not or do not both occur on the verb |
Simple Clauses |
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| 105A |
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' |
Indirect-object construction |
Simple Clauses |
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| 107A |
Passive Constructions |
Present |
Simple Clauses |
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| 112A |
Negative Morphemes |
Negative particle |
Simple Clauses |
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| 113A |
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation |
Both |
Simple Clauses |
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| 114A |
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation |
A/Cat |
Simple Clauses |
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| 116A |
Polar Questions |
Question particle |
Simple Clauses |
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| 117A |
Predicative Possession |
Conjunctional |
Simple Clauses |
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| 122A |
Relativization on Subjects |
Gap |
Complex Sentences |
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| 131A |
Numeral Bases |
Decimal |
Lexicon |
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
NegV |
Word Order |
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
NegV |
Word Order |
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
None |
Word Order |
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
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| 144A |
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb |
NegVSO |
Word Order |
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| 144B |
Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb |
Immed preverbal |
Word Order |
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| 144T |
The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages |
NegVSO |
Word Order |
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| 144V |
Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative |
Separate word, no double negation Word&NoDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
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| 144W |
Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object |
None |
Word Order |
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| 144X |
Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative |
No clause-final neg |
Word Order |
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