APiCS Questionnaire

From Apics

Below you find the 120 main features of the APiCS Questionnaire.

• For detailed information about what the Questionnaire looks like and how to fill it out, please consider the Guidelines for contributors.
• To download your own copy of the Questionnaire, visit the APiCS Database page.

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• Addenda to features  |  Sociolinguistic features

Contents 1 The APiCS features 1.1 By Feature Area 1.2 By Feature Number 1.3 Alphabetical list

The APiCS features

By Feature Area

Phonology (A) Morphology (B) Nominal Categories (C)

Nominal Syntax (D) Verbal Categories (E) Word Order (F)

Argument marking (G1) Valence and voice (G2) Negation and questions (G3)

Predication (G4) Complex sentences (H) Lexicon (I)

By Feature Number

1 Order of Subject, Object and Verb 2 Order of Possessor and Possessum 3 Order of Adjective and Noun 4 Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase 5 Order of Demonstrative and Noun 6 Order of Cardinal Numeral and Noun 7 Order of Relative Clause and Noun 8 Order of Degree Word and Adjective 9 Position of Definite Article in the Noun Phrase 10 Position of Indefinite Article in the Noun Phrase 11 Order of Adverb, Verb and Object: ‘Often’ 12 Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions 13 Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns 14 Dual in Independent Personal Pronouns 15 Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Personal Pronouns 16 Person Syncretism in Independent Personal Pronouns 17 Special Dependent Personal Pronouns 18 Politeness Distinctions in Second Person Pronouns 19 Interrogative Pronouns 20 Pronoun Conjunction 21 Indefinite Pronouns 22 Occurrence of Nominal Plural Markers 23 Expression of Nominal Plural Meaning 24 The Associative Plural 25 Nominal Plural Marker and 3rd Person Plural Pronoun 26 Functions of Reduplication 27 Anti-Dual of Paired Body Part Terms 28 Definite Articles 29 Indefinite Articles 30 Generic Noun Phrases in Subject Function 31 Cooccurrence of Demonstrative and Definite Article 32 Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives 33 Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives 34 Distributive Numerals 35 Ordinal Numerals 36 Numeral Classifiers 37 Marking of Pronominal Possessors 38 Marking of Possessor Noun Phrases 39 Independent Pronominal Possessor 40 Gender Agreement of Adnominal Adjectives 41 Comparative Adjective Marking 42 Comparative Standard Marking 43 Position of Tense, Mood and Aspect Markers in relation to the verb 44 Internal Order of Tense, Mood, and Aspect Markers 45 Tightness of Link between Past Marker and Verb 46 Tightness of Link between Progressive Marker and Verb 47 Uses of the Progressive Marker 48 Uses of the Habitual Marker 49 Tense-Aspect Systems 50 Negation and Tense-Aspect-Mood Marking 51 Unmarked Stative and Dynamic Verbs 52 Aspect Markers and Inchoative Meaning 53 Aspect Change in Verb Chains 54 Suppletion according to Tense and Aspect 55 Ability Verb and Epistemic Possibility 56 The Prohibitive 57 Marking of Patient Noun Phrases 58 Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases 59 Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns 60 Ditransitive (‘Give’) Constructions

61 Order of Recipient and Theme in Ditransitive Constructions 62 Expression of Pronominal Subjects 63 Expletive Subject in ‘Seem’ Construction 64 Expletive Subject of Existential Verb 65 Raining Constructions 66 Experiencer Constructions: ‘Headache’ 67 Experiencer Constructions: ‘Like’ 68 Experiencer Constructions: ‘Fear’ 69 Instrumental Expressions 70 Comitatives and Instrumentals 71 Noun Phrase Conjunction and Comitative 72 Nominal and Verbal Conjunction 73 Predicative Noun Phrases 74 Predicative Adjectives 75 Predicative Locative Phrases 76 Predicative Noun Phrases and Predicative Locative Phrases 77 Predicative Possession 78 Existential Verb and Transitive Possession Verb 79 Motion-to and Motion-from 80 Going to Named Places 81 Coming from Named Places 82 Transitive Motion Verbs: ‘Push’ 83 Transitive Motion Verbs: ‘Pull’ 84 ‘Come’ and ‘Go’ Serial Verb Constructions 85 ‘Take’ Serial Verb Constructions 86 ‘Give’ Serial Verb Constructions 87 Reflexive Constructions 88 Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns 89 Reciprocal and Reflexive Constructions 90 Passive Constructions 91 Applicative Constructions 92 Subject Relative Clauses 93 Direct Object Relative Clauses 94 Instrument Relative Clauses 95 Complementizer with Verbs of Speaking 96 Complementizer with Verbs of Knowing 97 ‘Want’ Complement Subjects 98 Complements of ‘Think’ and ‘Want’ 99 Temporal Clause Verb Doubling 100 Negative Morpheme Types 101 Position of Standard Negation 102 Negation and Indefinite Pronouns 103 Polar Questions 104 Nominal Cleft Construction 105 Verb Doubling and Focus 106 Focus Particle ‘Also’ 107 Vocative Marker 108 Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks 109 Pequeninho 110 Save 111 Tears 112 Hand and Arm 113 Finger and Toe 114 Body Hair and Feather 115 Hear and Smell 116 Green and Blue 117 Female and Male Animals 118 Syllable Onsets 119 Syllable Codas 120 Tone

Alphabetical list

For an alphabetical list of the features, please view the "APiCS feature" Category page