| 9A |
The Velar Nasal |
Initial velar nasal |
Phonology |
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| 26A |
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology |
Little affixation |
Morphology |
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| 33A |
Coding of Nominal Plurality |
Plural word |
Nominal Categories |
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| 37A |
Definite Articles |
Definite word distinct from demonstrative |
Nominal Categories |
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| 38A |
Indefinite Articles |
No indefinite, but definite article |
Nominal Categories |
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| 51A |
Position of Case Affixes |
No case affixes or adpositional clitics |
Nominal Categories |
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| 52A |
Comitatives and Instrumentals |
Differentiation |
Nominal Categories |
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examples
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| 57A |
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes |
No possessive affixes |
Nominal Categories |
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| 69A |
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes |
Mixed type |
Verbal Categories |
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| 70A |
The Morphological Imperative |
Second singular and second plural |
Verbal Categories |
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| 71A |
The Prohibitive |
Special imperative + normal negative |
Verbal Categories |
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| 72A |
Imperative-Hortative Systems |
Minimal system |
Verbal Categories |
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| 81A |
Order of Subject, Object and Verb |
SOV |
Word Order |
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| 82A |
Order of Subject and Verb |
SV |
Word Order |
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| 83A |
Order of Object and Verb |
OV |
Word Order |
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| 84A |
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb |
OVX |
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 |
Noun-Demonstrative |
Word Order |
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| 89A |
Order of Numeral and Noun |
Noun-Numeral |
Word Order |
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| 90A |
Order of Relative Clause and Noun |
Correlative |
Word Order |
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| 90E |
Correlative relative clauses |
Correlative relative clause dominant |
Word Order |
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| 93A |
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions |
Not initial interrogative phrase |
Word Order |
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| 94A |
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause |
Initial subordinator word |
Word Order |
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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 |
Other |
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 |
Obligatory pronouns in subject position |
Simple Clauses |
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| 110A |
Periphrastic Causative Constructions |
Purposive but no sequential |
Simple Clauses |
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| 111A |
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions |
Neither |
Simple Clauses |
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| 118A |
Predicative Adjectives |
Mixed |
Simple Clauses |
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| 119A |
Nominal and Locational Predication |
Different |
Simple Clauses |
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| 120A |
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals |
Impossible |
Simple Clauses |
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examples
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| 125A |
Purpose Clauses |
Deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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| 126A |
'When' Clauses |
Deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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| 127A |
Reason Clauses |
Deranked |
Complex Sentences |
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| 128A |
Utterance Complement Clauses |
Balanced |
Complex Sentences |
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| 141A |
Writing Systems |
Syllabic |
Other |
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| 143A |
Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb |
NegV |
Word Order |
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| 143E |
Preverbal Negative Morphemes |
NegV |
Word Order |
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| 143F |
Postverbal Negative Morphemes |
None |
Word Order |
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| 143G |
Minor morphological means of signaling negation |
None |
Word Order |
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| 144A |
Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb |
SNegOV |
Word Order |
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| 144B |
Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb |
Preverbal, not beginning or immed |
Word Order |
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comment
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| 144L |
The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages |
SNegOV |
Word Order |
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| 144P |
NegSOV Order |
No NegSOV |
Word Order |
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| 144Q |
SNegOV Order |
NoDoubleNeg |
Word Order |
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| 144R |
SONegV Order |
No SONegV |
Word Order |
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| 144S |
SOVNeg Order |
NoSOVNeg |
Word Order |
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