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Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Large
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS High
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In fricatives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Both missing
Uvular Consonants WALS Uvular stops only
Glottalized Consonants WALS Implosives and glottalized resonants
Lateral Consonants WALS Laterals, but no /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal WALS No initial velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast present
Front Rounded Vowels WALS Mid only
Syllable Structure WALS Simple
Tone WALS Complex tone system
Fixed Stress Locations WALS No fixed stress
Weight-Sensitive Stress WALS Combined: Right-edge and unbounded
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems WALS Prominence
Rhythm Types WALS Dual: both trochaic and iambic
Absence of Common Consonants WALS No bilabials
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS Clicks, pharyngeals, and 'th'

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Exclusively tonal
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + TAM
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 10-11 categories per word
Locus of Marking in the Clause WALS Other
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Other
Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology WALS Inconsistent or other
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Strong prefixing
Reduplication WALS Full reduplication only
Case Syncretism WALS Core cases only
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS Syncretic

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Four
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic and formal
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS Plural tone
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS Only human nouns, obligatory
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number stem + nominal plural affix
The Associative Plural WALS Unique periphrastic associative plural
Definite Articles WALS No definite, but indefinite article
Indefinite Articles WALS Indefinite affix
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS No 'we'
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS Only inclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Five (or more)-way contrast
Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives WALS Different stem
Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives WALS Related to non-remote demonstratives
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 3rd person non-singular only
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Existential construction
Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns WALS Identical
Person Marking on Adpositions WALS Pronouns and nouns
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Qualitatively asymmetrical
Position of Case Affixes WALS Case tone
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Mixed
Ordinal Numerals WALS First, two, three
Distributive Numerals WALS Marked by following word
Numeral Classifiers WALS Obligatory
Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers WALS Formally similar, with interrogative
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes WALS Prefixes and suffixes

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Exists
Possessive Classification WALS More than five classes
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Genitives and relative clauses collapsed
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Marked by prefix
Action Nominal Constructions WALS Restricted
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' identical to 'with'
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction WALS Both expressed by juxtaposition

Verbal Categories

Perfective/Imperfective Aspect WALS No grammatical marking
The Past Tense WALS Present, 4 or more remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS No inflectional future
The Perfect WALS From possessive
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes WALS Tense-aspect tone
The Morphological Imperative WALS Second plural
The Prohibitive WALS Special imperative + normal negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems WALS Both types of system
The Optative WALS Inflectional optative present
Situational Possibility WALS Other kinds of markers
Epistemic Possibility WALS Other
Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking WALS Overlap for either possibility or necessity
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality WALS Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality WALS Mixed
Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect WALS Aspect
Verbal Number and Suppletion WALS Singular-dual-plural triples, suppletion

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS OSV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Object and Verb WALS No dominant order
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb WALS XVO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase WALS Inpositions
Order of Genitive and Noun WALS No dominant order
Order of Adjective and Noun WALS Only internally-headed relative clauses
Order of Demonstrative and Noun WALS Demonstrative before and after Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun WALS Numeral only modifies verb
Order of Relative Clause and Noun WALS Doubly headed
Order of Degree Word and Adjective WALS No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles WALS Second position
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions WALS Mixed
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause WALS Internal subordinator word
Position of Negative Morpheme With Respect to Subject, Object and Verb WALS VSONeg

Simple Clauses

Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases WALS Tripartite
Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns WALS None
Alignment of Verbal Person Marking WALS Hierarchical
Expression of Pronominal Subjects WALS Subject pronouns in different position
Verbal Person Marking WALS Only the P argument
Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking WALS Zero only in 3rd nonsingular
Order of Person Markers on the Verb WALS Both orders of A and P occur
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' WALS Double-object construction
Reciprocal Constructions WALS No reciprocals
Passive Constructions WALS Absent
Antipassive Constructions WALS Implicit patient
Applicative Constructions WALS Benefactive and other; only transitive
Periphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Purposive but no sequential
Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions WALS Compound but no morphological
Negative Morphemes WALS Double negation
Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS Both
Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation WALS A/Fin and A/NonReal
Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation WALS Negative existential construction
Polar Questions WALS Absence of declarative morphemes
Predicative Possession WALS Topic
Predicative Adjectives WALS Mixed
Nominal and Locational Predication WALS Identical
Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals WALS Possible
Comparative Constructions WALS Conjoined

Complex Sentences

Relativization on Subjects WALS Non-reduction
Relativization on Obliques WALS Non-reduction
'Want' Complement Subjects WALS Desiderative particle
Purpose Clauses WALS Balanced/deranked
'When' Clauses WALS Deranked
Reason Clauses WALS Deranked
Utterance Complement Clauses WALS Deranked

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Identical
Finger and Hand WALS Identical
Numeral Bases WALS Restricted
M-T Pronouns WALS M-T pronouns, non-paradigmatic
N-M Pronouns WALS N-M pronouns, non-paradigmatic
Tea WALS Words derived from Sinitic cha

Other

Writing Systems WALS Consonantal

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