| 9A |
The Velar Nasal |
No initial velar nasal |
Phonology |
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| 26A |
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology |
Strongly suffixing |
Morphology |
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Plural suffix |
Nominal Categories |
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| 37A |
Definite Articles |
Demonstrative word used as definite article |
Nominal Categories |
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| 41A |
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives |
Two-way contrast |
Nominal Categories |
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examples
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| 42A |
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives |
Identical |
Nominal Categories |
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examples
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| 51A |
Position of Case Affixes |
Case suffixes |
Nominal Categories |
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| 53A |
Ordinal Numerals |
First, second, three-th |
Nominal Categories |
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
Possessive suffixes |
Nominal Categories |
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Tense-aspect suffixes |
Verbal Categories |
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| 79A |
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect |
None |
Verbal Categories |
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| 79B |
Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives |
None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) |
Verbal Categories |
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comment
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| 80A |
Verbal Number and Suppletion |
Singular-plural pairs, suppletion |
Verbal Categories |
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examples
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
No dominant order |
Word Order |
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
No dominant order |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
OV |
Word Order |
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| 84A |
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb |
No dominant order |
Word Order |
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| 85A |
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
Postpositions |
Word Order |
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| 86A |
Order of Genitive and Noun |
Genitive-Noun |
Word Order |
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| 87A |
Order of Adjective and Noun |
Noun-Adjective |
Word Order |
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| 88A |
Order of Demonstrative and Noun |
Demonstrative-Noun |
Word Order |
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| 89A |
Order of Numeral and Noun |
Numeral-Noun |
Word Order |
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| 90A |
Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
Noun-Relative clause |
Word Order |
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| 90C |
Postnominal relative clauses |
Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 92A |
Position of Polar Question Particles |
Second position |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 95A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase |
OV and Postpositions |
Word Order |
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| 96A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
OV and NRel |
Word Order |
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| 97A |
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun |
OV and NAdj |
Word Order |
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| 101A |
Expression of Pronominal Subjects |
Subject clitics on variable host |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 111A |
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions |
Morphological but no compound |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 112A |
Negative Morphemes |
Double negation |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 116A |
Polar Questions |
Question particle |
Simple Clauses |
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comment
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| 125A |
Purpose Clauses |
Deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 127A |
Reason Clauses |
Deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 128A |
Utterance Complement Clauses |
Balanced |
Complex Sentences |
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comment
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| 129A |
Hand and Arm |
Different |
Lexicon |
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comment
examples
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| 130A |
Finger and Hand |
Different |
Lexicon |
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comment
examples
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
ObligDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143B |
Obligatory Double Negation |
[Neg-V-Neg] |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
[Neg-V] |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
[V-Neg] |
Word Order |
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
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