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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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Definite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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Indefinite Articles
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No definite or indefinite article |
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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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Multiple politeness distinctions |
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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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Differentiation |
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| Verbal Categories |
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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 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 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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Correlative |
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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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Initial |
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Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
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Not 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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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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| Simple Clauses |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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