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The Velar Nasal
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Initial velar nasal |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
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Only human nouns, optional |
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The Associative Plural
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Associative same as additive plural |
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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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Different inflection |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Interrogative-based |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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Pronouns and nouns |
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Number of Cases
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8-9 cases |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Symmetrical |
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Distributive Numerals
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Marked by mixed or other strategies |
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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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The Morphological Imperative
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Second singular and second plural |
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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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Maximal 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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Affixes on verbs |
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Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking
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Overlap for either possibility or necessity |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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SOV |
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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 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 Relative Clause and Noun
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Mixed |
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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 Relative Clause and Noun
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Other |
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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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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Accusative |
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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 some 3sg 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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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 Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
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Predicate negation also present |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Desiderative verbal affix |
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'When' Clauses
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Deranked |
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Reason Clauses
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Deranked |
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Utterance Complement Clauses
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Balanced/deranked |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Identical |
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Finger and Hand
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Different |
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| Other |
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Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks
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Other or none |
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