Language Contact and Documentation: Contacto Linguistico y Documentacion

236 P. Muysken, H. Hammarström, J. Birchall, R. v. Gijn, O. Krasnoukhova, N. Müller
{Baure, Itonama, {Baure, Itonama,
Kanoé, Movima, Kanoé, Karo, Kwazá,
Mekens} Lakondê, Mekens, Wari’}
TAME Is present tense marked morphologically? N 1.000 N 0.875
TAME Is non-firsthand information marked morphologically? N 1.000 N 1.000
TAME Is imperfective marked morphologically? N 1.000 N 0.875
TAME Is imperative for 3 rd person only marked morphologically? N 1.000 N 1.000
TAME Is firsthand information marked morphologically? N 1.000 N 1.000
TAME Is an incompletive action marked morphologically? N 1.000 N 1.000
TAME Is a completive action marked morphologically? N 1.000 N 0.875
NP Are there nouns denoting obligatorily possessed items? 1 1.000 1 0.750
ARG Language shows contrasting alignment patterns for S depending on tense 0 1.000 0 0.875
and/or aspectual values of the verb:
NP Do numerals receive any special (class-changing) morphology in order to 0 1.000 0 0.625
function as an attributive modifier within an NP?
NP Do nouns have a morphologically marked paucal? 0 1.000 0 0.875
NP Do nouns have a morphologically marked dual? 0 1.000 0 1.000
NP Do discontinuous NPs occur? 0 1.000 0 0.875
ARG Causation can be expressed through verb serializations 0 1.000 0 0.875
ARG Causation can be expressed through quotative constructions 0 1.000 0 0.875
NP Can adnominal demonstratives encode altitude? 0 1.000 0 1.000
ARG Applicative constructions can be formed through verb serialization 0 1.000 0 0.625
TAME Is there a hierarchy of evidentials? z 0.800 z 0.625
ARG Recipient arguments are marked d 0.800 d 0.500
ARG Passive constructions are marked d 0.800 d 0.625
ARG Obliques in transitive constructions d 0.800 d 0.500
NP What is the morphological composition of adverbial demonstratives b 0.800 b 0.500
(as compared to adnominal dem.)?
ARG Obliques in intransitive constructions b 0.800 b 0.500