Typological Features Template for Ewe
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| Feature | Description |
| Phonological Features | |
| Vowel inventory | |
| Vowel harmony | |
| Consonant inventory | |
| Tone | |
| Syllable Structure | The two basic syllable structure in Ewe are CV and CCV. Where it is CCV, the second consonant in the the cluster is always a liquid. Where words borrowed in the language have consonants clusters other than the permissible one in the language, the cluster is broken by either deleting one of the consonants or inserting a vowel between the consonants in the cluster. Also, when a borrowed word has a coda in the last syllable of a word, the coda is deleted or a final vowel is added to the word]. |
| Morpho-syntactic Features | |
| morphological classification (1) | |
| morphological classification (2) | |
| Nominal Phrases | |
| syntactic structure | The linear order of the Ewe NP → N (Adj) Det. |
| nominal modification | |
| nominal specification | |
| possession | There are a number of ways in which possession is marked in Ewe. Where a possessive pronoun is used, the possessed noun is juxtaposed to the pronoun. For the first person pronoun, the possessed precedes the possessive pronoun. However, if a any noun other than a possessive pronoun is used, the possessive marker, ƒe, occurs after the possessor and before the possessed noun.Also, whenever the possessed noun is a kingship term, the possessive marker, ƒe, is omitted. Here, the two nouns are juxtaposed to each other.
Examples
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| pronominal system | |
| Verbal Phrases | |
| word order | |
| TAM | |
| infinitival forms | |
| verbal constructions | |
| Adpositions | |
| Complementation | |
| Special Properties of [your language] |