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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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The Associative Plural
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Associative same as additive plural |
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Indefinite Pronouns
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Interrogative-based |
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Number of Cases
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10 or more cases |
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Asymmetrical Case-Marking
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Symmetrical |
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Position of Case Affixes
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Case suffixes |
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Comitatives and Instrumentals
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Identity |
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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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Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
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No grammatical marking |
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The Past Tense
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Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions |
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The Future Tense
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Inflectional future exists |
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The Perfect
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Other perfect |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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Tense-aspect suffixes |
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The Optative
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Inflectional optative absent |
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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 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 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 Degree Word and Adjective
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Degree word-Adjective |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Final 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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OV and Postpositions |
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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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| Simple Clauses |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject affixes on verb |
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Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
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Indirect-object construction |
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Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
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Predicate negation also present |
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Comparative Constructions
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Locational |
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| Complex Sentences |
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'Want' Complement Subjects
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Subject is left implicit |
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| Lexicon |
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Tea
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Words derived from Sinitic cha |
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