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Are all person categories neutralized in some voice, tense, aspect, mood and/or negation?
Are causatives formed by affixes or clitics on verbs?
Are different posture verbs used obligatorily depending on an inanimate locatum's shape or position (e.g. 'to lie' vs. 'to stand')?
Are elements apart from verbs or nouns reduplicated?
Are nominal conjunction and comitative expressed by different elements?
Are nouns reduplicated?
Are there conjugation classes?
Are there correlative relative clauses?
Are there definite or specific articles?
Are there demonstrative classifiers?
Are there internally-headed relative clauses?
Are there morphological cases for independent oblique personal pronominal arguments (i.e. not S/A/P)?
Are there morphological cases for non-pronominal core arguments (i.e. S/A/P)?
Are there morphological cases for oblique non-pronominal NPs (i.e. not S/A/P)?
Are there morphological cases for pronominal core arguments (i.e. S/A/P)?
Are there multiple past or multiple future tenses, distinguishing distance from Time of Reference?
Are there non-adjacent relative clauses?
Are there numeral classifiers?
Are there possessive classifiers?
Are there postnominal articles?
Are there postpositions?
Are there prenominal articles?
Are there prepositions?
Are there serial verb constructions?
Are there several nouns (more than three) which are suppletive for number?
Are there special adnominal possessive pronouns that are not formed by an otherwise regular process?
Are there three or more distance contrasts in demonstratives?
Are there verb-adjunct (aka light-verb) constructions?
Are there verbal affixes or clitics that turn intransitive verbs into transitive ones?
Are variations in marking strategies of core participants based on TAM distinctions?
Are variations in marking strategies of core participants based on person distinctions?
Are variations in marking strategies of core participants based on verb classes?
Are verbs reduplicated?
Can adnominal possession be marked by a prefix on the possessed noun?
Can adnominal possession be marked by a prefix on the possessor?
Can adnominal possession be marked by a suffix on the possessed noun?
Can adnominal possession be marked by a suffix on the possessor?
Can adnominal property words occur discontinuously?
Can an adnominal demonstrative agree with the noun in gender/noun class?
Can an adnominal demonstrative agree with the noun in number?
Can an adnominal numeral agree with the noun in gender/noun class?
Can an adnominal property word agree with the noun in gender/noun class?
Can an adnominal property word agree with the noun in number?
Can an article agree with the noun in gender/noun class?
Can an article agree with the noun in number?
Can aspect be marked by a non-inflecting word ("auxiliary particle")?
Can aspect be marked by an inflecting word ("auxiliary verb")?
Can augmentative meaning be expressed productively by a shift of gender/noun class?
Can comparatives be expressed using two conjoined clauses?
Can diminutive meaning be expressed productively by a shift of gender/noun class?
Can mood be marked by a non-inflecting word ("auxiliary particle")?
Can mood be marked by an inflecting word ("auxiliary verb")?
Can polar interrogation be indicated by a V-not-V construction?
Can polar interrogation be indicated by a special word order?
Can polar interrogation be indicated by overt verbal morphology only?
Can polar interrogation be marked by a question particle and verbal morphology?
Can polar interrogation be marked by intonation only?
Can polar interrogation be marked by tone?
Can predicative possession be expressed with a transitive 'habeo' verb?
Can predicative possession be expressed with an S-like possessor and a possessum that is coded like a comitative argument?
Can predicative possession be expressed with an S-like possessum and a dative-coded possessor?
Can predicative possession be expressed with an S-like possessum and a locative-coded possessor?
Can predicative possession be expressed with an S-like possessum and a possessor that is coded like an adnominal possessor?
Can standard negation be marked by a non-inflecting word ("auxiliary particle")?
Can standard negation be marked by an affix, clitic or modification of the verb?
Can standard negation be marked by an inflecting word ("auxiliary verb")?
Can standard negation be marked clause-finally?
Can standard negation be marked clause-initially?
Can tense be marked by a non-inflecting word ("auxiliary particle")?
Can tense be marked by an inflecting word ("auxiliary verb")?
Can the A argument be indexed by a prefix/proclitic on the verb in the simple main clause?
Can the A argument be indexed by a suffix/enclitic on the verb in the simple main clause?
Can the P argument be indexed by a prefix/proclitic on the verb in the simple main clause?
Can the P argument be indexed by a suffix/enclitic on the verb in the simple main clause?
Can the S argument be indexed by a prefix/proclitic on the verb in the simple main clause?
Can the S argument be indexed by a suffix/enclitic on the verb in the simple main clause?
Can the S or A argument be omitted from a pragmatically unmarked clause when the referent is inferrable from context ("pro-drop" or "null anaphora")?
Can the agent be expressed overtly in a passive clause?
Can the recipient in a ditransitive construction be marked like the monotransitive patient?
Can the relative clause follow the noun?
Can the relative clause precede the noun?
Can the verb carry a marker of animacy of argument, unrelated to any gender/noun class of the argument visible in the NP domain?
Can verb stems alter according to the person of a core participant?
Do (nominal) content interrogatives normally or frequently occur in situ?
Do clausal objects usually occur in the same position as nominal objects?
Do collective ('all') and distributive ('every') universal quantifiers differ in their forms or their syntactic positions?
Do core adjectives (defined semantically as property concepts such as value, shape, age, dimension) act like verbs in predicative position?
Do core adjectives (defined semantically as property concepts; value, shape, age, dimension) used attributively require the same morphological treatment as verbs?
Do demonstratives show a visible-nonvisible distinction?
Do demonstratives show an elevation distinction?
Do indefinite nominals commonly have indefinite articles?
Do verbs classify the shape, size or consistency of absolutive arguments by means of incorporated nouns, verbal affixes or suppletive verb stems?
Do verbs have prefixes/proclitics, other than those that only mark A, S or P (do include portmanteau: A & S + TAM)?
Do verbs have suffixes/enclitics, other than those that only mark A, S or P (do include portmanteau: A & S + TAM)?
Does the verb for 'come' have suppletive verb forms?
Does the verb for 'give' have suppletive verb forms?
Does the verb for 'see' have suppletive verb forms?
Is a morphological distinction between perfective and imperfective aspect available on verbs?
Is a pragmatically unmarked constituent order verb-final for transitive clauses?
Is a pragmatically unmarked constituent order verb-initial for transitive clauses?
Is a pragmatically unmarked constituent order verb-medial for transitive clauses?
Is dual number regularly marked in the noun phrase by a dedicated phonologically free element?
Is incorporation of nouns into verbs a productive intransitivizing process?
Is paucal number regularly marked in the noun phrase by a dedicated phonologically free element?
Is plural number regularly marked in the noun phrase by a dedicated phonologically free element?
Is singular number regularly marked in the noun phrase by a dedicated phonologically free element?
Is the adnominal possessive construction different for alienable and inalienable nouns?
Is the order of constituents the same in main and subordinate clauses?
Is the order of core argument (i.e. S/A/P) constituents fixed?
Is there a benefactive applicative marker on the verb (including indexing)?
Is there a body-part tallying system?
Is there a bound comparative degree marker on the property word in a comparative construction?
Is there a causative construction involving an element that is unmistakably grammaticalized from a verb for 'to say'?
Is there a class of patient-labile verbs?
Is there a clause-final polar interrogative particle?
Is there a clause-initial polar interrogative particle?
Is there a comparative construction that employs a marker of the standard which elsewhere has a locational meaning?
Is there a comparative construction that includes a form that elsewhere means 'surpass, exceed'?
Is there a comparative construction with a standard marker that elsewhere has neither a locational meaning nor a 'surpass/exceed' meaning?
Is there a copula for predicate nominals?
Is there a count/mass distinction in interrogative quantifiers?
Is there a decimal numeral system?
Is there a difference between imperative (prohibitive) and declarative negation constructions?
Is there a distinction between inclusive and exclusive?
Is there a dual or unit augmented form (in addition to plural or augmented) for all person categories in the pronoun system?
Is there a gender distinction in independent 3rd person pronouns?
Is there a gender system where a noun's phonological properties are a factor in class assignment?
Is there a gender/noun class system where animacy is a factor in class assignment?
Is there a gender/noun class system where plant status is a factor in class assignment?
Is there a gender/noun class system where sex is a factor in class assignment?
Is there a gender/noun class system where shape is a factor in class assignment?
Is there a large class of nouns whose gender/noun class is not phonologically or semantically predictable?
Is there a logophoric pronoun?
Is there a male/female distinction in 1st person independent pronouns?
Is there a male/female distinction in 2nd person independent pronouns?
Is there a morpho-syntactic distinction between predicates expressing controlled versus uncontrolled events or states?
Is there a morphological antipassive marked on the lexical verb?
Is there a morphological passive marked on the lexical verb?
Is there a morphologically marked distinction between simultaneous and sequential clauses?
Is there a morphologically marked inverse on verbs?
Is there a non-bound comparative degree marker modifying the property word in a comparative construction?
Is there a notably small number, i.e. about 100 or less, of verb roots in the language?
Is there a phonologically bound reciprocal marker on the verb?
Is there a phonologically bound reflexive marker on the verb?
Is there a phonologically free antipassive marker ("particle" or "auxiliary")?
Is there a phonologically free passive marker ("particle" or "auxiliary")?
Is there a phonologically independent non-bipartite reciprocal pronoun?
Is there a phonologically independent reflexive pronoun?
Is there a phonologically or morphosyntactically definable class of ideophones that includes ideophones depicting imagery beyond sound?
Is there a polar interrogative particle that most commonly occurs neither clause-initially nor clause-finally?
Is there a politeness distinction in 2nd person forms?
Is there a postposed complementizer in complements of verbs of thinking and/or knowing?
Is there a preposed complementizer in complements of verbs of thinking and/or knowing?
Is there a productive morphological pattern for deriving an action/state noun from a verb?
Is there a productive morphological pattern for deriving an agent noun from a verb?
Is there a productive morphological pattern for deriving an object noun from a verb?
Is there an associative plural marker for nouns?
Is there an existential verb?
Is there an inclusory construction?
Is there an instrumental applicative marker on the verb (including indexing)?
Is there an interrogative verb for content interrogatives (who?, what?, etc.)?
Is there an overt verb marker dedicated to signalling coreference or noncoreference between the subject of one clause and an argument of an adjacent clause ("switch reference")?
Is there any accusative alignment of flagging?
Is there any ergative alignment of flagging?
Is there any neutral alignment of flagging?
Is there any productive augmentative marking on the noun (exclude marking by system of nominal classification only)?
Is there any productive diminutive marking on the noun (exclude marking by system of nominal classification only)?
Is there clause chaining?
Is there directional or locative morphological marking on verbs?
Is there grammatical marking of direct evidence (perceived with the senses)?
Is there grammatical marking of indirect evidence (hearsay, inference, etc.)?
Is there nonphonological allomorphy of noun number markers?
Is there overt morphological marking of present tense on verbs?
Is there overt morphological marking on the verb dedicated to future tense?
Is there overt morphological marking on the verb dedicated to mood?
Is there overt morphological marking on the verb dedicated to past tense?
Is there productive infixation in verbs?
Is there productive morphological dual marking on nouns?
Is there productive morphological paucal marking on nouns?
Is there productive morphological plural marking on nouns?
Is there productive morphological trial marking on nouns?
Is there productive overt morphological singular marking on nouns?
Is there synchronic evidence for any element of a quinary numeral system?
Is there synchronic evidence for any element of a vigesimal numeral system?
Is there verb suppletion for participant number?
Is there verb suppletion for tense or aspect?
Is trial number regularly marked in the noun phrase by a dedicated phonologically free element?
Is verb compounding a regular process?
Is verbal predication marked by the same negator as all of the following types of predication: locational, existential and nominal?
What is the order of adnominal demonstrative and noun?
What is the order of adnominal property word and noun?
What is the order of numeral and noun in the NP?
What is the order of the adnominal collective universal quantifier ('all') and the noun?
What is the pragmatically unmarked order of S and V in intransitive clauses?
What is the pragmatically unmarked order of adnominal possessor noun and possessed noun?
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