Amele
WALS coordinates: 5° 15′ S, 145° 35′ E
spoken in Papua New Guinea
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Features
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| 1A | Consonant Inventories | Large | Phonology | comment | |
| 2A | Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | Phonology | comment | |
| 3A | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | Phonology | comment | |
| 4A | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In plosives alone | Phonology | comment | |
| 5A | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Missing /p/ | Phonology | comment | |
| 6A | Uvular Consonants | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 7A | Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | Phonology | comment | |
| 8A | Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | Phonology | comment | |
| 9A | The Velar Nasal | No velar nasal | Phonology | comment | |
| 10A | Vowel Nasalization | Contrast absent | Phonology | comment | |
| 11A | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 12A | Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | Phonology | comment | |
| 13A | Tone | No tones | Phonology | comment | |
| 14A | Fixed Stress Locations | No fixed stress | Phonology | comment | |
| 15A | Weight-Sensitive Stress | Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere | Phonology | comment | |
| 16A | Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | Coda consonant | Phonology | comment | |
| 17A | Rhythm Types | No rhythmic stress | Phonology | comment | |
| 18A | Absence of Common Consonants | All present | Phonology | comment | |
| 19A | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | Labial-velars | Phonology | comment | |
| 20A | Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives | Exclusively concatenative | Morphology | comment | |
| 21A | Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives | No case | Morphology | comment | |
| 21B | Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection | monoexponential TAM | Morphology | comment | |
| 22A | Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb | 6-7 categories per word | Morphology | comment | |
| 23A | Locus of Marking in the Clause | Head marking | Morphology | comment | |
| 24A | Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases | Dependent marking | Morphology |
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| 25A | Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology | Inconsistent or other | Morphology | comment | |
| 25B | Zero Marking of A and P Arguments | Non-zero marking | Morphology | comment | |
| 26A | Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology | Strongly suffixing | Morphology | comment | |
| 27A | Reduplication | Productive full and partial reduplication | Morphology | comment | |
| 28A | Case Syncretism | No case marking | Morphology | comment | |
| 29A | Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking | Syncretic | Morphology | comment | |
| 30A | Number of Genders | None | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 31A | Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems | No gender | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 32A | Systems of Gender Assignment | No gender | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 33A | Coding of Nominal Plurality | Mixed morphological plural | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 34A | Occurrence of Nominal Plurality | Only human nouns, obligatory | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 35A | Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns | Person-number stem + pronominal plural affix | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 36A | The Associative Plural | No associative plural | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 37A | Definite Articles | No definite, but indefinite article | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 38A | Indefinite Articles | Indefinite word distinct from 'one' | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 39A | Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns | No inclusive/exclusive | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 40A | Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection | No inclusive/exclusive | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 41A | Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives | Three-way contrast | Nominal Categories |
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| 42A | Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives | Identical | Nominal Categories |
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| 43A | Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives | Unrelated | Nominal Categories |
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| 44A | Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns | No gender distinctions | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 45A | Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns | No politeness distinction | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 46A | Indefinite Pronouns | Generic-noun-based | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 47A | Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns | Identical | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 48A | Person Marking on Adpositions | No person marking | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 49A | Number of Cases | No morphological case-marking | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 50A | Asymmetrical Case-Marking | No case-marking | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 51A | Position of Case Affixes | No case affixes or adpositional clitics | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 52A | Comitatives and Instrumentals | Differentiation | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 53A | Ordinal Numerals | First/one-th, two-th, three-th | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 54A | Distributive Numerals | No distributive numerals | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 55A | Numeral Classifiers | Absent | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 56A | Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers | Formally similar, without interrogative | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 57A | Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes | Possessive suffixes | Nominal Categories | comment | |
| 58A | Obligatory Possessive Inflection | Absent | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 58B | Number of Possessive Nouns | None reported | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 59A | Possessive Classification | More than five classes | Nominal Syntax |
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| 60A | Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses | Adjectives and relative clauses collapsed | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 61A | Adjectives without Nouns | Without marking | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 62A | Action Nominal Constructions | Possessive-Accusative | Nominal Syntax |
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| 63A | Noun Phrase Conjunction | 'And' identical to 'with' | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 64A | Nominal and Verbal Conjunction | Differentiation | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 65A | Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | No grammatical marking | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 66A | The Past Tense | Present, 2-3 remoteness distinctions | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 67A | The Future Tense | Inflectional future exists | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 68A | The Perfect | From 'finish', 'already' | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 69A | Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes | Tense-aspect suffixes | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 70A | The Morphological Imperative | No second-person imperatives | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 71A | The Prohibitive | Special imperative + special negative | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 72A | Imperative-Hortative Systems | Maximal system | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 73A | The Optative | Inflectional optative absent | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 74A | Situational Possibility | Other kinds of markers | Verbal Categories |
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| 75A | Epistemic Possibility | Other | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 76A | Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking | No overlap | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 77A | Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 78A | Coding of Evidentiality | No grammatical evidentials | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 79A | Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect | None | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 79B | Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives | None (= no suppletive imperatives reported in the reference material) | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 80A | Verbal Number and Suppletion | Singular-plural pairs, no suppletion | Verbal Categories |
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| 81A | Order of Subject, Object and Verb | SOV | Word Order | comment | |
| 82A | Order of Subject and Verb | SV | Word Order | comment | |
| 83A | Order of Object and Verb | OV | Word Order | comment | |
| 84A | Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb | XOV | Word Order | comment | |
| 85A | Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | Postpositions | Word Order | comment | |
| 86A | Order of Genitive and Noun | Genitive-Noun | Word Order | comment | |
| 87A | Order of Adjective and Noun | Noun-Adjective | Word Order | comment | |
| 88A | Order of Demonstrative and Noun | Noun-Demonstrative | Word Order | comment | |
| 89A | Order of Numeral and Noun | Noun-Numeral | Word Order | comment | |
| 90A | Order of Relative Clause and Noun | Noun-Relative clause | Word Order | comment | |
| 90C | Postnominal relative clauses | Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant | Word Order | comment | |
| 91A | Order of Degree Word and Adjective | Adjective-Degree word | Word Order | comment | |
| 92A | Position of Polar Question Particles | Final | Word Order | comment | |
| 93A | Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions | Not initial interrogative phrase | Word Order | comment | |
| 94A | Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause | Final subordinator word | Word Order | comment | |
| 95A | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase | OV and Postpositions | Word Order | comment | |
| 96A | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun | OV and NRel | Word Order | comment | |
| 97A | Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun | OV and NAdj | Word Order | comment | |
| 98A | Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases | Neutral | Simple Clauses |
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| 99A | Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns | Neutral | Simple Clauses |
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| 100A | Alignment of Verbal Person Marking | Accusative | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 102A | Verbal Person Marking | Both the A and P arguments | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 103A | Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking | No zero realization | Simple Clauses |
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| 104A | Order of Person Markers on the Verb | P precedes A | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 105A | Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' | Indirect-object construction | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 106A | Reciprocal Constructions | No reciprocals | Simple Clauses |
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| 107A | Passive Constructions | Absent | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 108A | Antipassive Constructions | No antipassive | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 108B | Productivity of the Antipassive Construction | no antipassive | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 109A | Applicative Constructions | Benefactive object; both bases | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 109B | Other Roles of Applied Objects | No other roles (= Only benefactive) | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 110A | Periphrastic Causative Constructions | Sequential but no purposive | Simple Clauses |
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| 111A | Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions | Morphological but no compound | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 112A | Negative Morphemes | Negative particle | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 113A | Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation | Both | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 114A | Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation | A/Cat | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 116A | Polar Questions | Question particle | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 117A | Predicative Possession | Conjunctional | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 118A | Predicative Adjectives | Nonverbal encoding | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 119A | Nominal and Locational Predication | Different | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 120A | Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Possible | Simple Clauses | comment | |
| 121A | Comparative Constructions | Exceed | Simple Clauses |
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| 122A | Relativization on Subjects | Non-reduction | Complex Sentences |
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| 123A | Relativization on Obliques | Non-reduction | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 124A | 'Want' Complement Subjects | Subject is expressed overtly | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 125A | Purpose Clauses | Balanced/deranked | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 126A | 'When' Clauses | Deranked | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 127A | Reason Clauses | Balanced | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 128A | Utterance Complement Clauses | Balanced | Complex Sentences | comment | |
| 136A | M-T Pronouns | No M-T pronouns | Lexicon | comment | |
| 136B | M in First Person Singular | No m in first person singular | Lexicon | comment | |
| 137A | N-M Pronouns | No N-M pronouns | Lexicon | comment | |
| 137B | M in Second Person Singular | No m in second person singular | Lexicon | comment | |
| 142A | Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks | Affective meanings | Other | comment | |
| 143A | Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb | OptDoubleNeg | Word Order | comment | |
| 143C | Optional Double Negation | NegV/[V-Neg]/Neg[V-Neg] | Word Order | comment | |
| 143E | Preverbal Negative Morphemes | NegV | Word Order | comment | |
| 143F | Postverbal Negative Morphemes | [V-Neg] | Word Order | comment | |
| 143G | Minor morphological means of signaling negation | None | Word Order | comment | |
| 144A | Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb | OptDoubleNeg | Word Order | comment | |
| 144L | The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages | OptDoubleNeg | Word Order | comment | |
| 144O | Optional Double Negation in SOV languages | S(Neg)O[V(-Neg)]/SO(Neg)[V(-Neg)] | Word Order | comment | |
| 144P | NegSOV Order | No NegSOV | Word Order | comment | |
| 144Q | SNegOV Order | OptDoubleNeg | Word Order | comment | |
| 144R | SONegV Order | Word&OptDoubleNeg | Word Order | comment | |
| 144S | SOVNeg Order | Suffix&OptDoubleNeg | Word Order | comment |
