| Morphology |
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Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
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Strongly suffixing |
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Reduplication
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Productive full and partial reduplication |
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| Nominal Categories |
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Coding of Nominal Plurality
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Plural suffix |
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Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives
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Related for all demonstratives |
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Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
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No gender distinctions |
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Person Marking on Adpositions
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No adpositions |
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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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Differentiation |
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Numeral Classifiers
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Absent |
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Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
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No possessive affixes |
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| Verbal Categories |
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Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
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No tense-aspect inflection |
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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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Special imperative + special negative |
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Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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Coding of Evidentiality
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No grammatical evidentials |
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| Word Order |
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Order of Subject, Object and Verb
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SVO |
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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 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 Relative Clause and Noun
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Noun-Relative clause |
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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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Initial interrogative phrase |
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Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
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Internal subordinator word |
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Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
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OV and NRel |
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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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Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
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Split |
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Expression of Pronominal Subjects
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Subject clitics on variable host |
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Verbal Person Marking
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Both the A and P arguments |
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Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
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Zero in all 3rd person forms |
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Order of Person Markers on the Verb
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Both orders of A and P occur |
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Reciprocal Constructions
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Distinct from reflexive |
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Passive Constructions
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Present |
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Antipassive Constructions
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Oblique patient |
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Negative Morphemes
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Double negation |
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Polar Questions
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Question particle |
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| Lexicon |
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Hand and Arm
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Different |
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Finger and Hand
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Identical |
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M-T Pronouns
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No M-T pronouns |
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N-M Pronouns
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No N-M pronouns |
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