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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Psychol. 2015 May 27;80:73–108. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2015.03.004

Table 1.

Example of the four sentential constructions for experimental verbs in the four language variants.

Language
Variant		 Locus of
Marking		 Cue
Order		 2 NP Sentences 1 NP Sentences
Non-instrument
Morphology		 Instrument
Morphology		 Non-instrument
Morphology		 Instrument
Morphology
(I) V Early Zumpi-tu fami nunu Zumpi-ka fami nunu Zumpi-tu nunu Zumpi-ka nunu
(II) V Late Nunu fami zumpi-tu Nunu fami zumpi-ka Nunu zumpi-tu Nunu zumpi-ka
(III) NP Late Zumpi fami nunu-tu Zumpi fami nunu-ka Zumpi nunu Zumpi nunu-ka
(IV) NP Early Nunu-tu fami zumpi Nunu-ka fami zumpi Nunu zumpi Nunu-ka zumpi