References (used for the creation of the questionnaire)
The questions in the questionnaire are usually illustrated with examples from English. In a few cases, data from other languages were ncessary for illustration. These include Evenki (Nedjalkov 1997), French (own knowledge), German (own knowledge), Hindi (Fanselow 2025), Italian (own knowledge), Japanese (Tsunoda 2020b), Korku (Zide 2008), Manchu (own knowledge), Mandarin (elicited), Persian (Windfuhr & Perry 2009), Russian (elicited), and South African Indian English (Mesthrie & Dunne 1990).
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