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Fixed Stress Locations
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No fixed stress |
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Weight-Sensitive Stress
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Right-oriented: One of the last three |
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Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
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Long vowel or coda consonant |
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Rhythm Types
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No rhythmic stress |
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| Morphology |
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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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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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All nouns, always obligatory |
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Definite Articles
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Definite affix |
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Indefinite Articles
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Indefinite word distinct from 'one' |
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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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Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns
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Binary politeness distinction |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Special |
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Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns
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Identical |
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Number of Cases
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2 cases |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical |
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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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Identity |
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Ordinal Numerals
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First, second, three-th |
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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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Action Nominal Constructions
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Other |
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Noun Phrase Conjunction
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'And' different from 'with' |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
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No grammatical marking |
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The Past Tense
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Present, no remoteness distinctions |
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The Future Tense
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No inflectional future |
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The Perfect
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From possessive |
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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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Second person number-neutral |
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The Prohibitive
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Normal imperative + normal negative |
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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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Situational Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Epistemic Possibility
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Verbal constructions |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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Overlap for both possibility and necessity |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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Indirect only |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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Mixed |
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Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
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Tense |
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Verbal Number and Suppletion
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None |
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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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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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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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Degree word-Adjective |
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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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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 AdjN |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Obligatory pronouns in subject position |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative particle |
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Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
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Mixed behaviour |
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Polar Questions
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Interrogative word order |
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Predicative Possession
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'Have' |
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Predicative Adjectives
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Nonverbal encoding |
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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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Impossible |
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| Lexicon |
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Tea
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Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te |
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| Other |
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Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks
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Affective meanings |
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