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The Velar Nasal
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No velar nasal |
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| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Little affixation |
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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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Plural word |
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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-number stem + pronominal plural affix |
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Definite Articles
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Definite word distinct from demonstrative |
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Indefinite Articles
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No indefinite, but definite article |
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Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
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Three-way contrast |
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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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Number of Cases
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No morphological case-marking |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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No case-marking |
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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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Differentiation |
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Ordinal Numerals
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One-th, two-th, three-th |
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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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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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No tense-aspect inflection |
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The Morphological Imperative
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No second-person imperatives |
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The Prohibitive
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Normal imperative + special negative |
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Epistemic Possibility
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Other |
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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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VO |
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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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Prepositions |
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Order of Genitive and Noun
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Noun-Genitive |
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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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Noun-Demonstrative |
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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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In either of two positions |
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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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| 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 pronouns in different position |
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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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No zero realization |
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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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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Indirect-object construction |
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Passive Constructions
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Present |
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Negative Morphemes
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Negative word, unclear if verb or particle |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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Predicative Possession
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Genitive |
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| Complex Sentences |
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Purpose Clauses
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Balanced |
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'When' Clauses
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Balanced |
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Reason Clauses
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Balanced |
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