Agarabi

WALS coordinates: 6° 10′ S, 146° E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Gadsup
Routledge:
  • Gadsup
Other:
  • Gadsup (Agarabi)
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Nominal Syntax
Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
The Morphological Imperative Second person number-neutral
The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Polar Questions Interrogative verb morphology
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects Desiderative verbal affix
Lexicon
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
Number of Basic Colour Categories 4.5-5.5
Green and Blue Green/blue
Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow