1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Oceanic

Ala'ala

WALS coordinates: 8° 55′ 12.00″ S, 146° 45′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nara
Routledge:
  • Nara
Other:
  • Lala,
  • Pokau,
  • Lala, Pokau
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes
Word Order
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase No dominant order
Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Secondary-object construction
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Complex Sentences
'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is expressed overtly